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Excerpt from IEEE Patent PolicyDate: 2015-09-13

Name Affiliation Address Phone email

Seán Coffey Realtek 9120 Irvine Center Drive,

Ste. 200, Irvine, CA 92618, USA

+1 (415) 572-6221 coffey@realtek.com

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Abstract

This presentation contains an excerpt from IEEE Patent Policy that is relevant to the resolutions of the remaining CIDs for the IEEE 802.11ah amendment (dealing with the absence of an accepted LOA).

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Context

• Doc. IEEE doc. 11/15-1029r0, “Proposed Comment Resolution for Comments on missing LoA”, R. de Vegt, September 2015 [1], includes a letter from Qualcomm asserting that― “all of Qualcomm’s Essential Patent Claims with respect to the

802.11ah Standard are subject to the Accepted Letter of Assurance filed by CSR, plc on March 6, 2009”

• (The Accepted Letter of Assurance filed by CSR on March 6, 2009 [2] is a “Blanket Letter of Assurance”. CSR, plc was acquired by Qualcomm on or around August 13, 2015 [3].)

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IEEE Patent Policy

• The IEEE Standards Board Operations Manual, section 6.3.4 [4], states that― “Any Blanket Letter of Assurance submitted by the acquired entity or

the prior holder of the acquired Essential Patent Claim before the acquisition shall continue to apply to acquired Essential Patent Claims covered by such assurance (but not to the acquirer's Essential Patent Claims).”

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Conclusion

• There is no Accepted LOA from Qualcomm that references 802.11ah

• IEEE Patent Policy appears to state that CSR, plc’s March 6, 2009 letter does not apply to any of Qualcomm’s Essential Patent Claims, for any IEEE 802.11 amendment

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References

[1] IEEE doc. 11/15-1029r0, “Proposed Comment Resolution for Comments on missing LoA”, R. de Vegt (Qualcomm), September 2015

[2] Letter of Assurance filed by CSR, plc, March 6, 2009, available at http://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/patcom/loa-802_11-csr-06mar2009.pdf

[3] “Qualcomm Completes $2.4 Billion Acquisition of CSR”, Qualcomm press release, August 13, 2015, available at https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2015/08/13/qualcomm-completes-24-billion-acquisition-csr

[4] IEEE Standards Board Operations Manual, http://standards.ieee.org/develop/policies/opman/sect6.html, accessed September 13, 2015

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