[step-manufacturing] A Happy Christmas Fwd: POSTECH patents regarding STEP-NC

[Martin Hardwick]

All,

I am forwarding this very good news from Postech 
and ISO. Many thanks to everyone for working hard 
to resolve this issue especially Prof. Suh of 
Postech and Gernot Rossi of SC1 and Siemens.

Happy holidays everyone.

Martin Hardwick
Team Leader STEP-Manufacturing


>Subject: POSTECH patents regarding STEP-NC
>Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:46:57 +0100
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>From: "Rossi, Gernot" <gernot.rossi at siemens.com>
>To: "Andreas Wesche" <a.wesche at vdw.de>,
>         Meinolf Gröpper <Meinolf.Groepper at vdma.org>,
>         "Martin Hardwick" <hardwick at steptools.com>, <saruhashi at iso.org>,
>         "Mason, Howard (UK)" <Howard.Mason at baesystems.com>,
>         "Suk-Hwan Suh" <shs at postech.ac.kr>
>Cc: "Xun Xu" <x.xu at auckland.ac.nz>
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>Dear all:
>
>Today I got an email with a .pdf-file from 
>POSTECH with the requested patent declaration 
>forms (see attachment). The declaration form is 
>on the postal way to Germany. I will hand the 
>declaration form over to ISO CS, after arrival.
>
>POSTECH offers a LICENCE FREE OF CHARGE for the 
>2 US-patents US6795749B2 and US7099737B2.
>
>I will therefore stop my work on the analysis of 
>the 2 US patents, because this analysis is now irrelevant.
>
>I will ask POSTECH to extend the LICENCE FREE OF 
>CHARGE to all international family members of the 2 US patents.
>
>
>Andreas & Martin:
>Will you please send this POSITIVE information 
>to all relevant people working with STEP-NC?
>
>Atsuko:
>Is the patent declaration form correct?
>
>
>Thank you to everybody who was supporting this "POSTECH patent case".
>It was the first patent case for TC184 and it 
>seems to come to an positive end.
>
>
>Kind regards
>Gernot Rossi
>Chairman ISO TC184 SC1
>
>------------------------------------------------
>Von:            Rossi, Gernot
>Gesendet:       Freitag, 30. November 2007 16:36
>An:             'Suk-Hwan Suh'
>Cc:             wesche; Stroud; 'Mr. Proctor 
>(NIST)'; hardwick; Ron.Kolakowski at ManTech.com; 'Mason, Howard (UK)'
>Betreff:        [POSTECH Patents] Situation and request
>
>Dear Prof. Suh:
>
>Thank you for your support in that case.
>In the meanwhile POSTECH accounced the patent 
>declaration form for next week (December 3-7).
>
>As chairman of ISO TC184 SC1 I took the 
>opportunity to contact POSTECH relectly via 
>email (Mr. Kyoung Jin, Kim) and asked for a LICENCE FREE OF CHARGE.
>
>I will keep you and the STEP community informed about this case.
>Kind regards
>Gernot Rossi
>Chairman ISO TC184 SC1
>
>-------------------------------------------------
>From: Suk-Hwan Suh [mailto:shs at postech.ac.kr]
>Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 9:44 AM
>To: Rossi, Gernot; wesche; Stroud; 'Mr. Proctor 
>(NIST)'; hardwick; Ron.Kolakowski at ManTech.com
>Cc: syham at postech.ac.kr; jaihun at ats.go.kr; kimyd at ats.go.kr; Soonhung Han
>Subject: [STEP-NC Patents] Situation and request
>
>Dear all:
>
>About STEP-NC Patents, I would like to explain the situation here in POSTECH.
>
>Since I sent an e-mail to you on the Patents in 
>this August, I contacted Intellectual Property 
>Team on behalf of Postech Academy-Industry 
>Foundation, the owner of the patents, many times 
>in various ways. I explained all the relevant 
>things related with the Patents, including my position and willingness.
>
>At the same time, I persuade them to declare 
>Option 1 by conveying all the requests (from Mr. 
>Proctor, Mr. Rossi, etc), and information, such 
>as ISO TC184/SC1 Frankfurt Resolution, ISO 
>TC184/SC4 Dallas Resolution, etc. In spite of my 
>whole efforts, I am very sorry that they did not 
>take action on the Patents until now.
>
>Further, I am very sorry that I cannot solve the 
>problem any more. Thus, from now on, in regard 
>to Patent Issues, I would like to ask you to 
>contact directly Mr. Ham, in charge of 
>Intellectual Property Team at POSTECH, at the address shown below.
>
>Mr. Soo-Yong Ham
>Manager of POSTECH Academy-Industry Foundation
>POSTECH, Pohang, S. Korea, 790-784
>e-mail; syham at postech.ac.kr, Tel; +82-54-279-8481
>Best regards
>Suk-Hwan SUH
>
>
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