What are TAG participant licensing obligations?
Per the [proposed] TAG charter [revision of Nov 2004], individuals in the TAG participate as Invited Experts with respect to the Patent Policy, even when they are Member employees. Licensing obligations for TAG participants only extend to those claims over which the individual exercises control (per section 3.4 of the Patent Policy). The individual’s employer has no licensing obligation by virtue of the individual’s participation as an Invited Expert in the group in question.
