The INCITS patent policies specified in clause 8 of RD-1, Policies and Guidelines
are modeled on the ANSI patent policies.
A convenient overview of the ANSI patent policy is available on the
ANSI web-site here.
A guideline for implementing the patent policy is available on the ANSI
web-site here.
A data-base
of the patent declarations recorded by ANSI is also available.
A list of the patent declarations recorded by T11 is available on the T11 web-site under the "documents"
button and the "patent-related" link.
Agere Systems Inc. has notified INCITS that it may hold patents
applicable to Fibre Channel Interface Standards, and that it will comly
with the ANSI patent policy. See T11/04-723v0.
The contact is:
Agilent Technologies has notified the American National Standards
Institute that it holds patents applicable to 10GFC, and that they will
comply with the ANSI patent policy.
The contact is:
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. has notified the American
National Standards Institute that it holds patents, and will comply
with the ANSI patent policy. For the patent held for FC-SW-3, see
T11/04-607v0.
The contact is:
Cisco Systems, Inc. has notified INCITS that they have acquired Andiamo Systems, Inc., including pending patents that may relate to FC-SP, FC-FS, FC-FS-2, FC-LS, FC-GS-4, FC-SW-3, FC-BB-2, and FAIS. Cisco Systems, Inc. has indicated that it will comply with the ANSI Patent Policy. See T11/03-805v0.
The contact is:
Emulex has declared that it has a patent pending that applies to the
practice of FC-SATA, and that it will comply with the ANSI patent
policy. See T11/05-365v0.
The contact is:
IBM Corp. has declared that it has patents, which apply to the
practice of FC and SBCON, and that they will comply with the ANSI
patent policy. See T11/03-651v2.
The contact is:
Lucent Technologies has notified the American National Standards
Institute that if it holds patents applicable to SRP, it will comply
with the ANSI patent policy.
The contact is:
McDATA Corporation has notified the American National Standards
Institute that it holds patents that are applicable to FC-BB, FC-PH,
FC-FS, FC-LS, FC-SW, FC-SP, and FC-GS, and that they will comply with
the ANSI patent policy. The patents include those previously disclosed
by Nishan Systems, Inc. See T11/99-114v0, T11/02-356v0, T11/02-377v0,
T11/04-239v0.
The contact is:
Nortel Networks has notified INCITS that it has patents which may
apply to FC-BB-3. Nortel Networks has indicated that it will
comply with the ANSI Patent Policy. See T11/04-741v0.
The contact is:
Tyco Electronics Corporation has notified INCITS that they have
patents which may apply to standards being developed in T11. It has
also indicated that it has patents associated with the T11.2 HSSDC-2
connector. They have indicated that they will comply with the ANSI
Patent Policy.
The contact is:
Wavecrest Corporation has notified INCITS that they have patents
which apply to several of the test methods in the FC-MJSQ standard.
They have indicated that they will comply with the ANSI Patent
Policy. See T11/04-034v0.
The contact is:
XFP MSA has notified INCITS that they agree to, as a base for the
standardization of interfaces compatible with the XFP Specification,
license the copyright of the XFP Specification to T11 with the right to
reproduce and prepare derivatives for the developing T11 proposals and
standards. See T11/03-522v0.
The contact is: