AVS Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy

The AVS Workgroup has developed an IPR Policy to facilitate theadoption of standards in the marketplace. The policy is based onconsideration of IPR issues in parallel with the technical work fordrafting the standard. The paper describes the relationship between IPRand the standard, and how the goals for the standard must becomplemented by goals for the IPR. The existing IPR policies of the ITUand ISO are outlined, and then the AVS IPR policy is described,organized by its three main components: commitment to license ondeclared basic terms, disclosure of intellectual property, andprotection of IPR.