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1985 · annex to the cooperation agreement

Information Release and Industrial Property Conditions — Annex C

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One page reaches beyond radio engineering to a question that would divide the industry: who could use the inventions embodied in a common standard, and on what terms? Annex C defines conditions for exchanging research information and making compatible equipment. It envisages free, non-exclusive licences for essential patents under the stated conditions, available to competent third parties in European countries represented in CEPT. Stephen Temple’s archive account connects this approach with the later clash over intellectual property at ETSI. The document makes that fault line visible early, when a promise of interoperability also raised difficult questions about commercial rights and rewards.

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