What is ex ante disclosures of licensing terms?
Ex ante disclosure of licensing terms is a mechanism about committing to licensing terms before the protected technology will be selected as part of a standard or in other words a mechanism about submitting anticipated licensing terms for a given standard draft before the contribution is locked-in as a standard. Ex ante disclosure of licensing terms should not be confused with: – the disclosure of IPRs, which is the notification to ETSI of essential or potentially essential IPRs, nor with – the requested undertaking in writing of an IPR owner that it is prepared to grant licenses on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions, pursuant to Clause 6.1 of the ETSI IPR Policy. Both are independent from the ex ante disclosures of licensing terms and are not replaced by the latter. It is considered that licensing terms from such disclosures may, in some circumstances, improve transparency for individual Members in considering technologies for inclusion in standards. How is e
