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There, a German inventor advocated including his technology, which was intended to improve signaling protocols, in the standard. But he didn’t mention that Panasonic had filed a patent on this technology just three days earlier, naming him as the inventor. It is highly unlikely that he was not informed regarding the patent application. If the German had disclosed this patent application to the standardization committee, according to its statutes, this should have given priority to one of the alternative, unpatented solutions, say standardization experts. In this respect, the entire lawsuit by the rights administrator IP Bridge in Munich, who wants to sue for fees for the use of this patent, has feet of clay.
