Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-ietf-psamp-protocol-07.txt
Date: 3 Jan 2007
From: Rachel Albright<ralbrigh@cisco.com>

Cisco is the owner of US Patent Nos. 6,243,667, 6,308,148, 6,889,181, and 6,590,894 
and US published patent applications 20010051865 and 20050027506 relating to the 
subject matter of "Packet Sampling (PSAMP) Protocol Specifications" <draft-ietf-psamp-protocol-07.txt>.

If technology in this document is included in a standard adopted by IETF 
and any claims of any Cisco patents are necessary for practicing the standard, 
any party will have the right to use any such patent claims under reasonable, 
non-discriminatory terms, with reciprocity, to implement and fully comply with 
the standard.

The reasonable non-discriminatory terms are:

If this standard is adopted, Cisco will not assert any patents owned or controlled 
by Cisco against any party for making, using, selling, importing or offering for 
sale a product that implements the standard, provided, however that Cisco retains 
the right to assert its patents (including the right to claim past royalties) against 
any party that asserts a patent it owns or controls (either directly or indirectly) 
against Cisco or any of Cisco's affiliates or successors in title or against any 
products of Cisco or any products of any of Cisco's affiliates either alone or in 
combination with other products; and Cisco retains the right to assert its patents 
against any product or portion thereof that is not necessary for compliance with 
the standard.

Royalty-bearing licenses will be available to anyone who prefers that option.

For information contact:

Dan Lang
Senior IP Counsel
Cisco Systems
408-526-6672
standards-ipr@cisco.com