What is the CDISC IP Policy? Why does CDISC have such a policy?
The CDISC Intellectual Property (IP) Policy is designed to facilitate the activities of CDISC in developing open standards, to maximize the adoption of such standards by protecting against the ownership of the standards by one party and to protect the legitimate intellectual property rights of contributors to the standards. In its role of leading the development of standards, CDISC must protect those standards to ensure that, to the extent practicable, they remain neutral, open, compensation (royalty)-free, and without encumbering ties to prior intellectual property. The entire policy is posted on here. The CDISC Intellectual Property (IP) Policy is designed to facilitate the activities of CDISC in developing open standards, to maximize the adoption of such standards by protecting against the ownership of the standards by one party and to protect the legitimate intellectual property rights of contributors to the standards. In its role of leading the development of standards, CDISC must
