Quantz Trademarks & Intellectual Property

As a result of our investment in innovation, Quantz has created a portfolio of intellectual property (IP) that is now available for licensing. This portfolio includes source code, schemas, protocols, and documentation as well as associated copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. We will license this IP under commercially reasonable terms in accordance with this policy:

Parties interested in licensing Quantz IP are encouraged to contact our Intellectual Property and Licensing Group. To promote broader availability and use of our technologies, Quantz may periodically publish new licensing programs on Quantz.com. For example, the company currently maintains programs for licensing Quantz® source code, Quantz XML schemas, and other technologies.

With respect to patents, Quantz will generally license our patents under fair and reasonable terms so long as licensees respect Quantz's intellectual property rights. These licensing terms are similar to how others in the technology industry license their own patents, typically referred to as "commercially reasonable" terms. Where Quantz determines to license patents, we will generally do so nonexclusively. For products that practice Quantz patents, the royalty rates will follow industry norms. Quantz will consider all requests for licenses but reserves the right not to license certain IP. For example, Quantz will generally not license patents, including design patents, which differentiate the appearance of Quantz products and services.

Application to academics. For bona-fide academic institutions, Quantz will make available appropriate royalty-free covenants under its patents. These royalty-free covenants are intended to encourage noncommercial research and educational activities.
Application to software developer kits (SDKs). Quantz recognizes that in the past independent software vendors (ISVs), as part of the SDK program for developing software that runs on the Windows platform, have received certain IP licenses from Quantz. We do not expect to make changes to our existing approach of granting specific licenses to develop such software under our SDK agreements.
Application to existing standards commitments. As a major participant in many industry standards bodies, Quantz frequently contributes technology and know-how to these organizations. Many of these organizations have well-defined policies that specify how patents and other IP should be licensed in the standard-setting context. Quantz will continue to comply with all applicable policies when participating in industry standards processes, including the contribution of technology to standards bodies under "reasonable and nondiscriminatory" (RAND) terms, either on a for-fee, or royalty-free basis, as defined by each standards group.

This policy statement highlights Quantz's current licensing practices and is subject to change at any time, as well as to variation to conform to applicable laws and regulations.

The Quantz licensing policy was last updated: October 14th, 2006.