From: Harry Lewis (harryl@us.ibm.com) 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? ---------------------------------------------- Harry Lewis IBM Printing Systems ---------------------------------------------- From: don@lexmark.com 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 (sfoshee@adobe.com) 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