Title: Cisco's Statement about IPR Claimed in draft-sanjib-private-vlan-01.txt
Received: 14 June 2004
From: Robert Barr <rbarr@cisco.com>

Cisco is the owner of US Patent 6,741,592 and one or more pending patent
application relating to the subject matter of "Private VLANs: Addressing
VLAN scalability and security issues in a multi-client environment"
<draft-sanjib-private-vlan-01.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.

For information contact:

Robert Barr
Worldwide Patent Counsel
Cisco Systems
408-525-9706
rbarr@cisco.com