Are duplicate disclosures required?
Duplicate disclosures are not required for a given patent claim/specification pair. Per section 6.2 of the Patent Policy (emphasis added): The disclosure obligation as to a particular claim is satisfied if the holder of the claim has made a commitment to license that claim under W3C RF licensing requirements and the claim is no longer subject to exclusion under section 4. Parties make the W3C RF licensing commitment with respect to a patent claim/specification pair. Once a disclosure has been made with respect to a given claim/specification pair, no further disclosures are required, by anyone, for that claim/specification pair. Also per section 6.7, once an RF licensing commitment has been made to a given claim/specification pair, no disclosures are required, by anyone, for that claim/specification pair. If the same patent claim bears on another specification, disclosure obligations are not thereby discharged; each claim/specification pair is treated independently.
