Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-swallow-mpls-aggregate-fec-01.txt
Date: 25 July 2008 
From: 	Rachel Albright<ralbrigh@cisco.com>

Cisco is the owner of US Patent Application Serial No. 12/142,245 relating to 
the subject matter of "Network Scaling with Aggregate LSPs" <draft-swallow-mpls-aggregate-fec-01.txt>.

If technology in this document is included in a standard adopted by IETF 
and any claims of any Cisco patents are necessary for practicing the standard, 
any party will have the right to use any such patent claims under reasonable, 
non-discriminatory terms, with reciprocity, to implement and fully comply 
with the standard.

The reasonable non-discriminatory terms are:

If this standard is adopted, Cisco will not assert any patents owned or 
controlled by Cisco against any party for making, using, selling, importing 
or offering for sale a product that implements the standard, provided, 
however that Cisco retains the right to assert its patents (including the 
right to claim past royalties) against any party that asserts a patent it 
owns or controls (either directly or indirectly) against Cisco or any of 
Cisco's affiliates or successors in title or against any products of Cisco 
or any products of any of Cisco's affiliates either alone or in combination 
with other products; and Cisco retains the right to assert its patents 
against any product or portion thereof that is not necessary for 
compliance with the standard.

Royalty-bearing licenses will be available to anyone who prefers that option.

For information contact:

Dan Lang
Director, Intellectual Property
Cisco Systems
+1 408-526-6672
standards-ipr@cisco.com