3GPP Legal Issues

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Legal Status

The Partnership Project is not a legal entity but is a collaborative activity between the following recognized Standards Development Organizations:

The Partnership Project is entitled the "THIRD GENERATION PARTNERSHIP PROJECT" and may be known by the acronym "3GPP".

Copyright authorization
 

Interested in using 3GPP specifications or other material in your company training
or for conference presentations, educational journal articles, text books, etc?  
If so please fill in this Word document and return it to the address shown on the form

For further information please contact the ETSI Legal Service or 3GPPContact.

IPR declarations

The Project Coordination Group (PCG) is responsible for maintaining a register of IPR declarations relevant to 3GPP, received by the Organizational Partners.

Individual Members should declare, to their Organizational Partners, any IPRs which they believe to be essential, or potentially essential, to any work being conducted within 3GPP.

During each 3GPP meeting (TSG and WGs) a call for IPRs must be made by the Chairman using standard wording.

For further information contact the PCG Secretary .

List of IPR declarations sorted by Organizational Partners:
 
ARIB
CCSA
ETSI
ATIS
TTA
TTC

STD-T63 "IMT-2000 DS-CDMA System pdf.gif (1237 bytes)

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ETSI IPR database

ATIS Patent Policy

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3GPP

Last update:
2008-04-28: Update of 3GPP Copyright Questionnaire doc
2008-01-28: minor changes associated with the transfer of copyright authorizations to ETSI legal team
2008-01-23: 3GPP copyright authorization passed to ETSI legal team; on-line application form removed; sundry editorials.
2006-03-09  Legal Advisor Link updated - World document updated
2005-05-12: Copyright online for link added
2005-05-11: ATIS link updated
2005-01-31: 3GPPContact added in addition to ETSI Legal Advisor for copyright matters.
2005-01-05