Title: Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-ietf-tsvwg-rsvp-bw-reduction-00.txt
Date: 21 July 2005 
From:  Dan Lang <dlang@cisco.com>

Cisco is the owner of one or more pending unpublished patent applications relating to the subject matter of "A 
Resource Reservation Extension for the Reduction of Bandwidth of a Reservation Flow" <draft-ietf-tsvwg-rsvp-bw-reduction-00.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; 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
dlang@cisco.com