From: Harry Lewis ([email-masked])
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 18:19:22 EDT

Scott, thanks for getting back to us. Are you saying Adobe would have no objection (licensing or otherwise) to the IEEE ISTO PWG basing IPP FAX on PDF? Are we talking explicitly PDF/X-3 (a pre-press data interchange subset), another subset (t.b.d.?) or full blown PDF? 
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Harry Lewis 
IBM Printing Systems 
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From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 17:12:37 EDT 

Scott: 
Just to clarify.... On the adobe website at: 
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/legalnotices.html 
Adobe agrees to royalty free licensing of 
- 5,634,064 
- 5,737,599 
- 5,781,785 
- 5,819,301 
- 6,028,583 
for producing, consuming and interpreting PDF and 
- 5,860,074 
only for producing (not consuming or interpreting) PDF. 
We know that for PDF 1.4 there are additional patents including but not limited 
to: 
- 6,289,364 
for such things as transparency, etc. 
Now the question...... will all the patents necessary for PDF 1.4 also be available on RF terms? 
From: Scott Foshee ([email-masked])
Date: Tue Jun 04 2002 - 18:44:40 EDT 

Hi Harry, 
I can not speak for Adobe on this point. My understanding is that we would offer a license on Adobe's PDF on the same terms as those we offer TC130 in their development of PDF/X. One of our reps to the Portland meeting is tasked with sorting this out for IEEE. 
tx....Scott