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- INTRODUCTION
- Google Inc. acquired Global IP Solutions, Inc. (GIPS) in 2011, and GIPS is now
- a subsidiary of Google. Google Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates
- ("Google") would like to update and clarify their position with respect to any
- patents and patent applications it may own that cover the iLBC (internet low
- bit-rate) codec technology that is the subject of IETF RFC 3951 and RFC 3952.
- This notice is provided in accordance with RFC 3979 and RFC 4879 covering IPR
- in the IETF.
- DECLARATION
- "iLBC Specification" means IETF RFC 3951 and RFC 3952.
- Google hereby grants to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge,
- irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have
- made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, transfer, and otherwise run, modify
- and propagate implementations of the iLBC Specification, where such license
- applies only to those patent claims, both currently owned by Google and
- acquired in the future, licensable by Google that must necessarily be
- infringed because of what is specifically required by the normative portions
- of the iLBC Specification. This license is offered on the condition that
- you grant a reciprocal license under the same terms as this license to all
- parties for implementations of the iLBC Specification under those patent
- claims, both currently owned by you and acquired in the future, licensable
- by you that must necessarily be infringed because of what is specifically
- required by the normative portions of the iLBC Specification. If you or
- your agent or exclusive licensee institute or order or agree to the
- institution of patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim
- or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any implementation of the iLBC
- Specification constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, or
- inducement of patent infringement, then any patent rights granted to you
- under this license shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.
- In addition to the license above relating to what is required by the
- specification, the following license relating to the reference implementation
- is offered.
- "The iLBC reference implementation" means the c-code reference implementation
- in Appendix A of IETF RFC 3951.
- Google hereby grants to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge,
- irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have
- made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, transfer, and otherwise run, modify
- and propagate the iLBC reference implementation, where such license applies
- only to those patent claims, both currently owned by Google and acquired in
- the future, licensable by Google that are necessarily infringed by the iLBC
- reference implementation. This grant does not include claims that would be
- infringed only as a consequence of further modification of the iLBC reference
- implementation. If you or your agent or exclusive licensee institute or order
- or agree to the institution of patent litigation against any entity (including
- a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the iLBC reference
- implementation constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, or
- inducement of patent infringement, then any patent rights granted to you
- under this License shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.
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