Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory
Most standards organizations demand that their members agree to license any of their patent claims necessary to practice their standards on “reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms.” Here is a typical license grant from one company, Cisco, to one standards organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force:
Cisco has a pending patent application relating to the subject matter of draft-ietf-mobileip-nat-traversal-06.txt, “Mobile IP NAT/NAPT Traversal using UDP Tunneling”. If a standard relating to this subject matter is adopted by IETF and any claims of any issued Cisco patents are necessary for practicing this standard, any party will be able to obtain a license from Cisco to use any such patent claims under reasonable, ...
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