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News Release from: VITA
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 03 November 2006
Pioneering patent policy gets green
light
VITA has received guidance from the US Department of Justice for new patent policy procedures aimed at significantly improving its standards-setting capabilities.
VITA, the leading trade association in the critical embedded computing industry, and its standards organisation (VSO) have received guidance from the US Department of Justice for new VITA patent policy procedures aimed at significantly improving the standards-setting capabilities within the VSO VITA requested guidance from the department's antitrust authority regarding intentions with respect to a proposed patent policy designed to ensure that participants in the VSO standard-setting process disclose patents that are essential to implement a new standard and declare the most restrictive licensing terms that will be required to license any such patents