Re: Second Last Call: <draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message-08.txt>

Pete Resnick wrote:
> 
> We were told by the other company employees who facilitated the 
> disclosures, at the time of the disclosures, that this was strictly an 
> individual's failure to comply with the IETF IPR Policy, that the author 
> in question claims not to have understood the IETF IPR Policy, and that 
> the company proceeded to make these disclosures as soon as it discovered 
> that this IPR existed. I have no information to contradict that claim.


Somehow that sounds unconvincing to me.  While I've never been through
the patent application process myself, from what I've heard, it is
non-trivial and usually taken care of by the company's legal department.

Normally, patent lawyers of a company's legal department should have
sufficient clue about participation in SDOs that they should know
to ask employees the right questions.


-Martin