Started: 4/1/2010 2:23 AM | |
|  | Limited, Non-exclusive License to Use Intellectual Property The first paragraph of this section seeks to assure UCAIug and members the royalty-free to use contributed IP for its purposes of furthering the state of art and science, while retaining the IP owner the right to license for commercial benefit. However, the second paragraph seems to expand beyond that purpose, by giving UCAIug the royalty-free license to place that contributed IP into the public domain. Once IP is in the public domain, there is no recourse for the original IP owner to benefit commercially from that IP. Interestingly, SDOs are exempted explicitly from this loss of control over their IP.
I think this situation will signficantly dampen the enthusiasm of commercial entities to openly display their innovation in a standards forum, and encourage them to join or form closed alliances of their own in order to be covered by the SDO exemption. It is not clear to me that this is this intentional, in light of revised IP terms at other standards related bodies that have recently moved toward better protection for commercialization of innovative IP.
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