Intellectual Property Rights Activity Group

IMTC member companies participate actively in the IMTC standard making process to create standards that are compatible with, or that utilize their technology protected by Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs).

As a result, any implementer of standards should have access to essential IPRs.

What We Do

The IMTC IPR Activity Group’s charter is to:

• Shape and improve the IPR policy
• Provide a “Historical Archive” of old standards related documents, to assist IMTC Members in IPR issues
• Provide IMTC input to the IPR policy discussions of standards bodies
• Formulate IPR requirements related to specific standards activities (e.g. speech and video codecs)

Liaisons

The IMTC collaborates and has liaison relationships with several standards development organizations. Learn about the liaison activities this group is maintaining with external organizations.

How We Work Together

• E-mail correspondence
• Face to Face meetings as needed

Why Join?

If you need to know (eg. patent disputes) what prior art has been published by Standards Groups on Multimedia and want to find out the results from each standards meeting regarding those IPRs. And your organization, by joining up with others, may better influence the IPR policies of relevant standardization bodies.

News

The group completed scanning of the ITU-T LBC Group documents (1992-1997) containing the standards documentation leading to the ITU-T H.324, H.245, H.263 and G.723.1 specifications. The documentation and Historical Archives are stored by Polycom and available to all IMTC members in good standing. Learn more about obtaining access to the Historical Archives.

Presentations

• Multimedia Standardization and IPRs, November 2005, Dr. Istvan Sebestyen, IMTC President
• IPR and Standardization Presentation, ITU-Forum Summit, July 2003, Dr. Istvan Sebestyen, IMTC President
• IMTC Status Presentation, ITU-Forum Summit, July 2003, Dr. Istvan Sebestyen, IMTC President

Chairs

	Co-Chair Dr. Istvan Sebestyen IMTC Fellow Ecma International ph +41 22 849 6000 x6011
	Co-Chair Dave Lindbergh IMTC Fellow