Connectivity Standards AllianceIntellectual Property Rights Policy
From and after the date that this Intellectual Property Rights Policy ("IPR Policy") is adopted, the IPR of
the Alliance and its Members shall be governed prospectively by this IPR Policy, all in accordance with theterms of the Alliance's Bylaws. Recognizing that the Alliance is an open participation organization whose
activities are focused on encouraging the rapid advancement of interface Specifications for consumer
electronics, home and building automation, energy management, industrial controls, PC peripherals,
medical sensor applications, toys and other related applications, this IPR Policy is designed to maximize
widespread adoption of Specifications. In furtherance of the objective of widespread adoption, the Allianceand its Members agree that barriers to industry use of Adopted Specifications should be limited as much as
possible. Capitalized terms used in this Exhibit are defined in Section 8 of this Exhibit or the applicable
Member Agreement.
1.

IPR Categories. IPR shall be categorized as follows:(a) Adopted Specifications, Proposed Specifications, Draft Specifications and Working
Specifications;(b) Alliance IPR; and(c) Joint IPR
with each category subject to the further terms set forth in this IPR Policy.

2.
RANDz License for Necessary Claims – Pre-Existing Specifications. The terms of this Section
2 apply only to Pre-Existing Specifications.
2.1
License Obligations Between Pre-Existing Members. Each Pre-Existing Member agrees to grant
to all other Pre-Existing Members a RANDz License to its Necessary Claims in each Pre-ExistingSpecification.
2.2
Opt-In for Pre-Existing Specifications. New Members may opt-in to a RANDz License for any
Pre-Existing Specification ("Opted-In Specification") on a Specification-by-Specification basis at any timeafter joining the Alliance. By executing a "Specification Opt-In Form," a New Member commits to provide
a RANDz License to its Necessary Claims for an Opted-In Specification to all Pre-Existing Members andother New Members who opt-in with respect to the same Opted-In Specification. Effective as of the dateof the Pre-Existing Specification Opt-In Form, Pre-Existing Members and other New Members who haveprovided a Specification Opt-In Form with respect to the same Specification agree to grant such New
Member a RANDz License to the Necessary Claims for the Opted-In Specification.
2.3
Transfer of Necessary Claims for Pre-Existing Specifications. Transfer of any Necessary
Claims for Pre-Existing Specifications is subject to the same obligations as transfer of Necessary Claims
for New Specifications, as set forth in Section 3.9 below.
2.4
RANDz License for Pre-Existing Specifications That a Member Certifies Against. If a
Member certifies a product or technology against a Pre-Existing Specification pursuant to the Alliancecertification program, it agrees to grant to all other Members a RANDz License to its Necessary Claims insuch Pre-Existing Specification.

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2.5
RANDz License Obligations for Subsequent Versions of a Pre-Existing Specification. To theextent that a New Adopted Specification contains the same text or substantively similar text in a PreExisting Specification that is a prior version of the New Adopted Specification or a Working Specification
existing on December 15, 2019 and implicates a Necessary Claim in such Pre-Existing Specification orsuch Working Specification, each Pre-Existing Member agrees to grant a RANDz License to its Necessary
Claim to each Member in such New Adopted Specification.
3.
RANDz License for Necessary Claims – New Specifications. The terms of Section 3 apply only
to New Specifications.
3.1
Working Group Membership and Participants. Members wanting to participate in an Alliance
Working Group must: (a) apply in writing to the Alliance via email or other written notice to participate;(b) notify the Alliance of each individual person representing such Member who wants to join the Working
Group (i.e., prospective Working Group Representative(s)); (c) limit participation in the Working Group tosuch named Working Group Representatives (no invitees or guests will be permitted to attend Working
Group meetings); and (d) comply with all of the terms and conditions of this IPR Policy and Working Group
rules, policies and procedures, as may be adopted and/or revised from time-to-time. The Alliance willrecord, keep and maintain the register of Working Group Members and Working Group Representatives,and such register shall be the official record for those Working Group Members and Working Group
Representatives who are part of the applicable Working Group. These terms apply to all Members of all
Alliance Working Groups in existence as of December 15, 2019.
3.2

RANDz License Obligations.
(a)Working Group Members. Except as provided below, each Working Group Member
agrees to grant to all other Members a RANDz License to its Necessary Claims in each New
Adopted Specification which is developed by such Working Group or as set forth in Section 4.
When a Member joins a Working Group, the Member does not incur additional RANDz License
obligations for New Adopted Specifications generated by the Working Group and adopted by the
Alliance Board of Directors before the Member joins the Working Group. A Working Group
Member may exclude Necessary Claims from the foregoing RANDz License obligation bycomplying and in accordance with the terms set forth in Sections 3.3 and 3.4, and, as applicable,
Section 4.
(b)
Contributions. To the extent a Member makes a Contribution to a Specification which isincluded in the applicable New Adopted Specification, such Member: (i) agrees to grant to all otherMembers, a RANDz License to its Necessary Claims in such Contribution; and (ii) grants to allother Members, a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable, fully-paid up,
royalty-free license under the Member's copyrights in such Contribution to redistribute and use thesame in source and binary forms, with or without modification, for the sole purposes of developing
and implementing Certified products and technology, developing implementations of New
Adopted Specifications, and developing New Specifications; provided, however, that if a Member
submits a Contribution and within thirty (30) days following such submission notifies theapplicable Working Group in writing that it is withdrawing such Contribution (a "Contribution
Withdrawal"), such Member is not required to grant a license as required in Section 3.2(b)(i) or(ii). Subject to the right to make a Contribution Withdrawal, a Member making a Contribution
shall not be permitted to exclude any Necessary Claims in the Contribution under Sections 3.3, 3.4
or otherwise. Each Member who makes a Contribution retains ownership of the copyrights in theContribution and grants the Alliance a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, nonexclusive,
nontransferable, fully-paid up, royalty-free license under the Member's copyrights in its
Contributions to copy, modify, disclose, reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display,

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publicly perform, and distribute such Contribution for the purpose of developing a Draft andProposed Specifications, releasing New Adopted Specifications, and developing and using Test
Materials with no duty to account to any other copyright owner. The foregoing terms do not affectthe copyright ownership rights of the Alliance in and to the Specifications as described in Section
5.
(c)
RANDz License Obligations for Prior and Subsequent Versions of a New Adopted
Specification. To the extent that a prior or subsequent version of a New Adopted Specification towhich a Member has a RANDz License obligation under Section 3.2(a) or Section 3.10 contains
the same text or substantively similar text that implicates its Necessary Claim in such New Adopted
Specification and was or is developed in the same Working Group that developed such New
Adopted Specification, such Member agrees to grant a RANDz License to such Necessary Claim
to each Member in such prior or subsequent version of such New Adopted Specification. For
purposes of this subsection (c) and with regard to Pre-Existing Specifications, a Working Groupwill be deemed to include the working group that, prior to December 15, 2019, developed the PreExisting Specification that is a prior version of such New Adopted Specification, and as a resultsuch Pre-Existing Specification is a prior version of such New Adopted Specification.
3.3

Disclosure of Necessary Claims.
(a)Mandatory Disclosure by Working Group Representatives – Prior to Expiration of
Necessary Claims Review Period. If during the development of a Working Specification or Draft
Specification but no later than the expiration of the Necessary Claims Review Period, a Working
Group Representative of a Working Group Member has actual, personal knowledge of Necessary
Claims of the Working Group Member at any time that a Working Specification or Draft
Specification is being developed in such Working Group, the Working Group Representative shallpromptly submit a written Necessary Claims notice ("Necessary Claims Notice") in accordancewith Section 3.4 unless the Working Group Member agrees to license the Necessary Claims under
the RANDz license obligation set forth in Section 3.2(a).
(b)
Exclusions by Working Group Members. An initial Draft Specification shall be
distributed to all Members for a sixty (60) day review period ("Initial Necessary Claims Review
Period"). Subsequent iterations of such Draft Specification (to the extent they exist) shall be
distributed to all Members for review as set forth in Section 3.6. If a Working Group Member does
not agree to grant a RANDz License under Section 3.2(a) to any of its Necessary Claims, theWorking Group Member must submit a Necessary Claims Notice in accordance with Section 3.4
before the end of the Necessary Claims Review Period. If a Working Group Member does notprovide a Necessary Claims Notice compliant with each of the requirements set forth in Section
3.4, then the applicable Working Group Member agrees to grant a RANDz License pursuant to
Section 3.2(a).
(c)
Optional Disclosure of Patents Owned by Third Parties. If any Member of the Alliancehas knowledge of a Necessary Claim in a Specification owned by another Member or Non-Member,such Member is encouraged, but not required, to promptly submit a Necessary Claims Notice withrespect to such Necessary Claim and to provide the information set forth in Section 3.4 as may beavailable.
(d)Non-Working Group Member Disclosure. A non-Working Group Member who has
actual knowledge of its Necessary Claims in a Draft Specification may, but is not required to,submit a Necessary Claims Notice with respect to such non-Working Group Member’s Necessary
Claims during the applicable Necessary Claims Review Period in accordance with the terms set

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forth in Sections 3.3 and 3.4. In the event a non-Working Group Member submits such Necessary
Claims Notice, the non-Working Group Member shall indicate on the Necessary Claims NoticeForm whether such non-Working Group Member agrees or does not agree to license the Necessary
Claims under the RANDz License obligation set forth in Section 3.2(a).
(e)
No Patent Search Required. No Member of the Alliance is required to conduct a patent
search with respect to any of its rights or obligations set forth in this Section 3.3.
3.4

Necessary Claims Notice Requirements.
(a)General. A Member's Necessary Claims Notice shall be made in the form adopted by the
Alliance and available on the Alliance website (the "Necessary Claims Notice Form"). Except as
set forth in Section 3.3, each section of the Necessary Claims Notice Form that is applicable to theNecessary Claims must be completed with the requested detail in order for the Necessary Claims
Notice to be compliant. The Alliance reserves the right to make changes, consistent with this IPR
Policy, to the format and/or content of the Necessary Claims Notice Form by posting a revised
Necessary Claims Notice Form on the Alliance website. All Necessary Claims Notices made morethan thirty (30) days after the posting of a revised Necessary Clams Notice Form must be madeusing such revised Necessary Claims Notice Form in order to be compliant.
(b)
Information Required. Except as set forth in Section 3.3, each Necessary Claims Notice
shall include at least the following information:(i)information for each Necessary Claim, including:(A)
For issued patents, the country or countries in which the patents were
issued, and the patent numbers;(B)
For published patent applications, the country or countries in which thepatent applications were filed and the publication number assigned to the patentapplication; and(C)
For unpublished patent applications, the country or countries in which
the patent applications were filed, the serial number of the patent applications, andthe date of filing of the patent applications;(ii)
for each Necessary Claim, identification of the subsection of the Specification towhich the Necessary Claim relates;(iii)

the legal entity or entities owning such Necessary Claim; and(iv)
whether the Member agrees or does not agree to provide a RANDz License to such
Necessary Claim to Members as set forth in Section 3.2(a) (a Working Group Member’s
express rejection of a commitment to provide a RANDz License to such Necessary Claimto Members as set forth in Section 3.2(a) is referred to as a "Necessary Claims Licensing
Exclusion").
(c)

Other Information.
If the Member does not agree to provide a RANDz License to such Necessary Claim toMembers as set forth in Section 3.2(a), the Member may, but is not required to, include on

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the Necessary Claims Notice Form the terms and conditions, if any, on which such Member
agrees to license such Necessary Claim to Members.
The requirements set forth above will not be deemed to be satisfied if any of the information
required in subsections (b)(i) through (iv) is missing or non-responsive, such as a blanket or
general statement that Necessary Claims exist or may exist in the Specification. If the Alliance or
the Working Group Leadership Body determines that a Necessary Claims Notice does not meet therequirements of this Section, the Member submitting the Necessary Claims Notice and the Alliance,
the Working Group Leadership Body and/or other representatives from the Working Group will
discuss the areas of non-compliance, and such Member shall promptly resubmit the Necessary
Claims Notice in a manner that complies with this Section. If there is continued disagreement
amongst the applicable parties as to the sufficiency of the Necessary Claims Notice, the matter willbe escalated to the Alliance Board of Directors. The Working Group Leadership Body and/or
Alliance Board of Directors may establish a patent counsel advisory group to assist the Working
Group Leadership Body or Alliance Board of Directors in understanding or resolving disputes
related to a Necessary Claims Notice. Each Member who participates in the patent counsel advisorygroup shall cover its own costs of participating. If a Member inadvertently makes typographicalerrors in a submitted Necessary Claims Notice, they shall be permitted to submit a corrected
Necessary Claims Notice without triggering the process set forth above or any other legal
ramifications.
A Necessary Claims Notice submitted by a Member shall be ineffective to the extent it attempts to
exclude from the RANDz License commitment Necessary Claims to Contributions submitted by
the Member, or to the extent it attempts to exclude Necessary Claims for which the Member has
previously been obligated to grant a RANDz License under Section 2 or Section 3. In either ofthese cases, other portions of the Necessary Claims Notice shall not be affected.
(d)Updating a Necessary Claims Notice. Each Member may, but is not required to, update
the information provided in its Necessary Claims Notices that were previously submitted whensuch information changes, including if there is an unpublished patent application that becomespublished, if claims are added through a continuation application or other action on an application,
if a patent is issued that requires making an update to the claims information set forth in Section
3.4 (b)(ii), if a patent application or patent is abandoned, and if a patent is invalidated. A Member
may not use the update process to make a Necessary Claims Licensing Exclusion to one or moreclaims that the Member has previously been obligated to grant a RANDz License under Section 2
or Section 3.
3.5
Impact of Necessary Claims Notice. If a Member timely submits a Necessary Claims Licensing
Exclusion that meets the requirements set forth in Section 3.4, such Member shall not be required to granta RANDz License with respect to its applicable Necessary Claims pursuant to Section 3.2(a).
3.6Process for Addressing Necessary Claims Licensing Exclusions and Additional Necessary
Claims Review Periods.
(a)Review. If one or more Necessary Claims Licensing Exclusions compliant with Section
3.4 are received by the Alliance during review of a Specification by a Working Group, the Alliancewill notify all Working Group Representatives of the receipt of such Necessary Claims Licensing
Exclusions and provide a copy thereof after closure of the Necessary Claims Review Period. The
applicable patent counsel advisory group for the Working Group, in conjunction with the Working
Group Members, will evaluate the Necessary Claims Licensing Exclusions, alternative design
options, and other factors to decide on a course of action with respect to the Specification.
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(b)Subsequent Necessary Claims Review Period(s). If a Draft Specification is revised as aresult of any course of action taken pursuant to Section 3.6(a) or is revised in any other manner,and the Working Group Leadership Body does not intend to send such revised Draft Specification
to the Board for approval as a New Adopted Specification, then the revised Draft Specification
shall be re-distributed to all Members in accordance with Section 3.3(b) for a forty-five (45) day
Necessary Claims Review Period (the "Subsequent Necessary Claims Review Period").
(c)
Final Necessary Claims Review Period. Before the Draft Specification is sent to theBoard for approval as a New Adopted Specification, if the Draft Specification has alreadyundergone a Necessary Claims Review Period and no new features have been added, then therevised Draft Specification shall be re-distributed to all Members in accordance with Section
3.3(b) for a thirty (30) day Necessary Claims Review Period, and if one or more new features havebeen added, then the revised Draft Specification shall be re-distributed to all Members inaccordance with Section 3.3(b) for a forty-five (45) day Necessary Claims Review Period (each, a"Final Necessary Claims Review Period").
(d)Additional Necessary Claims Review Period Exclusion Scope. During a Subsequent
Necessary Claims Review Period or Final Necessary Claims Review Period, a Working Group
Member is only permitted to submit a Necessary Claims Notice for the portions of the revised Draft
Specification for which such Member did not previously have an opportunity to submit a Necessary
Claims Notice.
(e)
No Additional Necessary Claims Review Period Required. Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary herein, if the revisions made to a Draft Specification are exclusively in one or moreof the following categories, then no additional Necessary Claims Review Period is required:(i)Errata Changes;(ii)

revisions to non-normative portions of the Specification;(iii)
incorporation by reference of other Adopted Specifications merely incorporated
by reference in a Specification unless: (A) such other Adopted Specifications are requiredfor implementing the Specification; or (B) if only a portion of such other Adopted
Specification is incorporated by reference, such portion is specifically identified and isrequired for implementing the Specification; or(iv)
incorporation by reference of a standard, technology or a specification (or portion
thereof) developed outside of the Alliance in the body of the Specification, and which thetechnical requirements of the standard, technology or specification (or portion thereof) arenot expressly set forth within normative portions of the Specification.
In addition, there is no additional Necessary Claims Review Period required if there are no revisions
to the Draft Specification.
If there is a disagreement as to whether a revision in the Draft Specification is within one or morecategories above, such disagreement shall be addressed in accordance with the Alliance's policies
and procedures.
3.7
Finalizing a Draft Specification. A Working Group will finalize a Draft Specification taking into
consideration the Necessary Claims Notices, including any Necessary Claims Licensing Exclusions and the2622253-6-

results of the evaluation and alternative design options referenced in Section 3.6. Unless otherwise
approved by the Alliance Board of Directors, Necessary Claims Notices will not be published to a particularaudience until the corresponding New Adopted Specification is published in accordance with the Alliance’s
policies and procedures.
3.8
Joining or Resigning from an Existing Working Group or the Alliance. A Member joining an
existing Working Group prior to the start or during the pendency of the Necessary Claims Review Period
shall comply with all the terms and conditions of Section 3. A Member who wants to join a Working Groupafter the expiration of a Necessary Claims Review Period and before the Specification becomes a New
Adopted Specification may do so; provided, if such Working Group Representative has actual, personal
knowledge of Necessary Claims in such Specification, and the Working Group Member does not agree tolicense the Necessary Claims under the RANDz License obligation set forth in Section 3.2(a), such
Working Group Member shall provide a Necessary Claims Notice in accordance with Section 3.4 within
thirty (30) days of joining the Working Group. If a Member leaves the Working Group before the Necessary
Claims Review Period begins, that Member is only bound to license Necessary Claims based on subject
matter contained in the latest Working Specification before the Member resigned from the Working Group,
subject to such Member filing a Necessary Claims Licensing Exclusion prior to the expiration of theNecessary Claims Review Period for the Working Specification and, at its discretion, a copy of the Working
Specification against which the Member is filing the exclusion. Members resigning from a Working Groupare still subject to obligations set forth in Section 3.3 up until the date of departure from the Working Group.
If a Member withdraws from a Working Group and also withdraws as a Member of the Alliance, the terms
and conditions of Section 9(e) of the Member Agreement shall apply, which includes, without limitation,that Members shall comply with Sections 2 and 3 of this IPR Policy, provided, however, that if the Member
is withdrawing within or prior to the Necessary Claims Review Period, such withdrawing Member may,prior to the expiration of the Necessary Claims Review Period, submit a Necessary Claims Licensing
Exclusion in accordance with the terms set forth in Section 3.4, and if such Member meets suchrequirements, the terms contained in this Section 3 relating to the Necessary Claims Licensing Exclusion
shall apply.
3.9.
Transfer of Necessary Claims for New Specifications. The RANDz License obligations set forthin Section 2 and Section 3 shall be interpreted as encumbrances that bind all successors-in-interest to theapplicable Necessary Claims. Recognizing that this interpretation may not apply in all legal jurisdictions,
any Member who has a RANDz License obligation in Section 2 and Section 3 who transfers ownership ofa Necessary Claim that is subject to such RANDz License obligation shall include appropriate provisions
in the relevant transfer documents to ensure that the RANDz License obligation is binding on the transferee
and that the transferee will similarly include appropriate provisions in the event of future transfers with theobjective of binding all successors-in-interest to the applicable Necessary Claims. The RANDz License
obligations set forth in Section 2 and Section 3 shall be interpreted as binding on successors-in-interest
regardless of whether such provisions are included in the relevant transfer documents.
3.10
RANDz License for New Adopted Specifications That a Member Certifies Against. If a
Member certifies a product or technology against a New Adopted Specification pursuant to the Alliancecertification program, it agrees to grant all other Members a RANDz License to its Necessary Claims insuch New Adopted Specification, subject to any Necessary Claims Licensing Exclusion in existence for the
New Adopted Specification.
4.
Urgent Changes to Adopted Specifications. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this IPR
Policy, the following procedures and process will be followed for any Urgent Changes:

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(a)the applicable Adopted Specification will be modified to reflect the technical change orchanges set forth in the Urgent Change and such modified Adopted Specification will be sent to
the Board of Directors for ratification as a New Adopted Specification;(b)
the Alliance will issue a test house notification to all applicable Alliance testing facilities
setting forth the modification(s) to the Adopted Specification and any applicable Test Materials;(c)the Alliance will notify all Members and provide a separate notice to all Members who are
directly affected by the Urgent Change (e.g., Members known to the Alliance that are undergoingcertification of products using the applicable Adopted Specification) that modification(s) to the
Adopted Specification are being made but they will be subject to a Necessary Claims Review
Period, and accordingly, there is a risk that the modification will not be subject to a RANDz License
obligation; and(d)the modification(s) to the Adopted Specification shall be treated as a Draft Specification
under Section 3 of this IPR Policy and the process and procedures set forth in Section 3 shall apply
to such modification(s), provided that: (i) the Necessary Claims Review Period shall be forty-five(45) days; and (ii) any Necessary Claims Licensing Exclusion shall be limited to the proposed
modification(s) of the Adopted Specification and shall not be available for unaffected portions of
the Adopted Specification.
5.
Alliance IPR and IPR Transferred to the Alliance. All right, title and interest in and to any andall IPR, software and documentation created or developed by individuals employed or retained by the
Alliance or transferred to the Alliance shall vest in the Alliance ("Alliance IPR"), and the Alliance shall befree to use and publish any research results, ideas, algorithms, techniques and other information developed
for or by the Alliance as determined by the Board of Directors. Members shall have rights to Alliance IPR
as determined by the Board of Directors. The Alliance owns all right, title and interest in and to the
copyrights in the Pre-Existing Specifications, Working Specifications, Draft Specifications, Adopted
Specifications and Proposed Specifications.
6.
Joint IPR. IPR developed jointly by the Alliance and either: (a) a Member pursuant to a separate
agreement with the Alliance defining the scope of the work to be performed by such Member; or (b) acontractor acting in their capacity as such, shall be jointly owned by the Alliance and the applicable Member("Joint IPR"). Each joint owner shall be entitled to exercise all rights of ownership as provided by law
without, however, an obligation of accounting from one to the other. The Member acknowledges and agrees
that the Alliance will make Joint IPR available to all Members pursuant to terms and conditions determinedby the Board of Directors. For the purposes of the foregoing, the term "jointly" shall mean that at least one
Member employee and one Alliance employee or contractor assigned to the Alliance qualify as co-inventors
as a matter of U.S. patent law, in the case of patentable subject matter, or qualify as co-authors as a matterof U.S. copyright law, in the case of copyrightable subject matter.
7.
Clearinghouse Activities. The Alliance may serve, upon such terms and conditions as may beestablished by the Board of Directors, as a clearinghouse for the purposes of collecting and distributing any
royalties or license fees due to any applicable Members and/or Non-Members in connection with thelicensure and/or use of Pre-Existing Specifications or New Specifications.
8.

Definitions.

"Alliance" means the Connectivity Standards Alliance.
"Adopted Specification" means a Specification that has been approved by the Board of Directors.
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"Adopter" means any participant in the Alliance which has executed the Alliance Adopter Member
Agreement.
"Alliance IPR" is defined in Section 5.
"Associate" means any participant in the Alliance which has executed the Alliance Associate Member
Agreement.
"Certified" means the product or technology has been granted certification by the Alliance for the applicable
Adopted Specification(s).
"Compliant" means that products or technology meet the mandatory requirements applicable to those typesof product(s) or technology specified in a Specification. If the Specification contains optional features, andthe product or technology incorporates optional features, then the mandatory requirements include theincorporated optional features of such Specification.
"Contribution" means any document, material or information submitted by a Member for incorporation
into a Specification, including, without limitation, any software, firmware, computer program, code, data,architecture, white paper, presentation, proposal, chart, functional or technical specification, and functionalor technical requirement.
"Contribution Withdrawal" is defined in Section 3.2(b).
"Draft Specification" means, for New Specifications, a Working Specification that has been approved by
the Working Group Leadership Body for distribution to all Members for review during a Necessary Claims
Review Period, and in the case of an Urgent Change, the proposed modified Adopted Specification.
"Final Necessary Claim Review Period" is defined in Section 3.6(c).
"Errata Change(s)" means a well-defined set of changes to a Draft Specification which make nonsubstantive clarifications or fix editing mistakes or editorial errors, such as for formatting, organization,spelling or grammar. An Errata Change is not a new feature, a change that creates a new technicalmechanism, a change that alters the behavior of a device, or a change that materially alters certification
tests or requirements.
"Initial Necessary Claim Review Period" is defined in Section 3.3(b).
"Interfaces" means a set of message and message sequences on the information flowing across a reference
point between two identified functional entities or the method by which information, including data andcontrol information, is conveyed between cooperative systems or devices, such as radio frequency
communications-related subsystems.
"Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)" means all patent rights, copyrights, domain name rights, and any otherintellectual property rights (registered or unregistered) throughout the world (excluding design patents,
trademark, trade name or service mark rights), including applications for the same.
"Joint IPR" is defined in Section 6.
"Member" means any Promoter Member, Participant, Adopter, Associate or other class of Alliance memberthat may be approved by the Alliance Board of Directors, collectively or individually, as applicable.
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"Necessary Claims" means those claims of all patents and patent applications throughout the world, existing
now or hereafter issued or filed, that: (a) cover or directly relate to one or more of the Draft Specifications,
Proposed Specifications and/or the Adopted Specifications, as applicable; and (b) would be necessarily
infringed by a Compliant implementation of any Draft Specifications or Proposed Specifications, if
approved as Adopted Specifications, and/or Adopted Specifications, as applicable, where such infringement
could not have been avoided by another technical non-infringing implementation of such Draft
Specifications, Proposed Specifications and/or Adopted Specifications, as applicable.
Necessary Claims shall not include:
(i)

(ii)
(iii)
(iv)

(v)

any claims of any patents or patent applications covering any enabling technologies (e.g.,
semiconductor manufacturing technology, compiler technology, object-oriented
technology, basic operating system technology, etc.) that are used in the manufacture of
products that are Compliant with the Draft Specifications, Proposed Specifications and/or
Adopted Specifications, and which are not expressly set forth as technical requirements
within normative portions of the Draft Specifications, Proposed Specifications and/or
Adopted Specifications;any claims not covered by subsections (a) and (b) above even if contained in the same
patent as Necessary Claims;
claims that would be infringed only by portions of an implementation that are not set forth
within normative portions of the Adopted Specification;
claims that would be infringed only by the implementation of other Adopted Specifications
merely incorporated by reference in an Adopted Specification unless: (A) such other
Adopted Specifications are required for implementing the Adopted Specification; or (B) if
only a portion of such other Adopted Specification is incorporated by reference, such
portion is specifically identified and is required for implementing the Adopted
Specification; orwith respect to New Adopted Specifications, claims that would be infringed only by the
implementation of a standard, technology or a specification (or portion thereof) developed
outside of the Alliance and merely incorporated by reference in the body of the New
Adopted Specification, and which the technical requirements of the standard, technology
or specification (or portion thereof) are not expressly set forth within normative portionsof the New Adopted Specification.

"Necessary Claims Licensing Exclusion" is defined in Section 3.4.
"Necessary Claims Notice" is defined in Section 3.3.
"Necessary Claims Notice Form" is defined in Section 3.4.
"Necessary Claims Review Period" means an Initial Necessary Claims Review Period, Subsequent
Necessary Claims Review Period or Final Necessary Claims Review Period, as applicable.
"Non-Member" means any entity which is not a Promoter Member, Participant, Adopter, Associate or otherclass of Alliance member that may be approved by the Alliance Board of Directors.
"New Adopted Specification" means a Specification subject to the procedures set forth in Section 3 that is
adopted by the Board after December 15, 2019.

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"New Member" means a Promoter Member, Participant, Adopter, Associate or other class of Alliancemember that may be approved by the Alliance Board of Directors, who becomes a Member on or following
December 15, 2019.
"New Specification" means each Draft Specification, Proposed Specification and/or New Adopted
Specification created or finalized on or following December 15, 2019.
"Participant" means any participant in the Alliance which has executed the Alliance Participant Member
Agreement.
"Pre-Existing Member" means a Promoter Member, Participant, Adopter or Associate who is a Member
immediately prior to December 15, 2019.
"Pre-Existing Specification" means the Adopted Specifications that are in existence prior to December 15,
2019.
"Promoter Member" means any participant in the Alliance which has executed the Alliance Promoter
Member Agreement.
"Proposed Specifications" means Draft Specifications that are approved by the Working Group Leadership
Body for consideration by the Alliance Board of Directors.
"RANDz License" means a no cost, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable (except with respect to Suspension,
Reciprocity and a material breach of the applicable license agreement), non-exclusive, non-transferable
license to the Necessary Claims of Adopted Specifications or such limited scope of Necessary Claims as
referenced in Section 2.5 or Section 3.2(c), as applicable, on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms
and conditions (but does not include any right to grant sublicenses), solely to make, have made, use, import,sell, offer to sell, license, promote and/or otherwise distribute and dispose of the resulting product ortechnology that is Certified with the applicable Adopted Specifications, the New Adopted Specificationreferenced in Section 2.5, or prior or subsequent versions of the Adopted Specifications as referenced in
Section 3.2(c), as applicable. For purposes of this IPR Policy, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms
and conditions are deemed to include, but are not limited to, Reciprocity and Suspension.
"Reciprocity" means a RANDz License for an Adopted Specification may be conditioned on a reciprocal
RANDz License grant from the licensee Member to the licensor Member with respect to Necessary Claimsof the licensee Member for the Adopted Specification.
"Specifications" means documents or specifications that define or specify one or more aspects of anInterface. Interfaces may be defined and/or specified by using either message-oriented descriptions or a
protocol specification. Test Materials do not constitute Specifications under this IPR Policy.
"Subsequent Necessary Claim Review Period" is defined in Section 3.6(b).
"Suspension" means a RANDz License for an Adopted Specification may be suspended by the licensor
Member if the licensee Member alleges or initiates legal action for infringement of the licensee Member's
Necessary Claims for such Adopted Specification by the licensor Member implementation of such Adopted
Specification.
"Test Materials" mean test plans, test scripts, test software and tools, test specifications, protocol
information conformance statements, interoperability tools and plans, and other documents and tools
associated with the certification testing process for a Specification.
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"Urgent Change" means any request determined by the Alliance, in accordance with Alliance policies andprocedures, to be urgent and that will result in a modification to any mandatory or optional feature portionsof an Adopted Specification.
"Working Group" means each Alliance working group that develops a New Specification.
"Working Group Member" means a Member who joins a Working Group and is recorded and registeredas such on the Alliance's books and records.
"Working Group Representative" means an individual representative of a Member (e.g., an employee orcontractor of such Member) participating in a Working Group who is recorded and registered as such on
the Alliance's books and records.
"Working Group Leadership Body" means the most senior leadership body (e.g., management committee,
management board, steering committee, etc.) of the Alliance Working Group responsible for applicableSpecification(s).
"Working Specification" means a Specification that a Working Group is actively developing prior to suchSpecification becoming a Draft Specification.
IPR Policy Adoption Date: This version of the Alliance IPR Policy (Version 6.3) was adopted on, and iseffective as of, September 7, 2022.

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