Ballot 77 – Emergency Extension of IPR Requirements

Ballot overview

• Ballot 77, Emergency Extension of IPR Requirements, is marked as Passed on the ballot page.
• The motion was made by Jeremy Rowley and endorsed by Kirk Hall and Robin Alden.
• The ballot waived the standard ballot review and voting periods for this motion.

What changed

• The Forum’s IPR Policy required each member to sign the IPR agreement and disclose all IP assets containing an Essential Claim on or before June 7, 2012.
• The motion extended the deadline for members to sign the IPR Agreement until August 1, 2012.
• The page states that failure to comply with the IPR Policy results in loss of forum membership.
• The motion says the waiver of the review and voting periods was intended to avoid low participation and delay in discussion and adoption of ongoing Forum work product.

Voting timing

• Voting commenced immediately.
• Voting closed at 7 June 2012 at 23:59 UTC.
• Votes were to be cast by reply all to the email.
• The latest vote received from any representative of a voting member before the close of voting would be counted.

Compliance timing

• Members had to sign the IPR Agreement by August 1, 2012.
• The ballot text also references the original IPR deadline of June 7, 2012, before the extension.
• The evidence does not provide a separate discussion start or discussion end date.
• The evidence does not provide an IPR review end date distinct from the voting close time.

Result

• The ballot page explicitly labels the ballot as Passed.
• No exclusion notices are mentioned in the supplied evidence.