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Legal Information
OPC Foundation Process
OPC Foundation: Bylaws
The OPC Foundation
Organization is governed by a set of bylaws.
The OPC Foundation Bylaws can be found by clicking
here.
OPC Foundation: Intellectual Property (IP)
Policy
Since its inception, the OPC
Foundation has sought to establish its
specifications as an open and interoperable
standard for worldwide use by all automation
suppliers and end-users. To that end, the
Foundation has adopted an
Intellectual Property Policy for the
potential interaction between the intellectual
property rights of its own members or of third
parties and the Foundation's draft or final
specifications. All members of the OPC
Foundation agree to the
Intellectual Property Policy. The IP policy
protects OPC Foundation members from
Intellectual Property issues.
The IP policy includes an appendix that
describes a step by step process that is
followed when IP related issues arise. As part
of this process, members are allowed to submit
IP via an anonymous submission.
The following options are available for
submission:
Send an email via
a blind personal
account to:
Patents@opcfoundation.org.
Click here
for an online anonymous submittal form.
Directly contact via phone any OPC
Foundation staff.
If a submitter wishes to be notified and
updated regarding the status of any
submitted IP they need to provide contact
information, instead of submitting it
anonymously.
OPC Foundation: IP Policy Reminder For Meetings
The following text is provided at the beginning
of all OPC related meetings as a reminder to
committee member of their obligations with
respect to IP:
OPC Foundation
Working Group Members who have representation on
any committee of the OPC Foundation agree and
acknowledge that: (i) the OPC Foundation shall
own all right, title and interest in all works,
information, ideas, publications, reports, trade
secrets, copyrights or other rights of property,
either personal of intellectual, arising out of
the work and/or proceedings of any such
committee; (ii) no proprietary information shall
be disclosed to the OPC Foundation or any
committee without the appropriate consent of its
owner; and (iii) no work or proceedings of any
such committee shall be disclosed to any outside
third party or any other member prior to the
publication of such work by the committee.
Prior to meetings,
OPC Foundation Working Group Members are
reminded of the obligations of the OPC
Foundation IP Policy and are invited to refer to
the OPC Foundation
Intellectual Property Policy for further
details regarding obligations with respect to
disclosure and ownership of intellectual
property arising from OPC Foundation activities
and intellectual property that is essential to
OPC specifications, technology or standards.
All meeting attendees are required to
acknowledge this message at the start of any
meeting.
OPC Foundation: Intellectual Property (IP)
Policy Revisions
The
1996 previous version of
the OPC Foundation IP Policy can be found
here.
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