ARTICLE 15. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LICENSING POLICY
SECTION 15.1 DEFINITIONS
The following definitions shall apply to this Article 15:
(a) "Compliant Portion" means only those specific portions of products (hardware, software or combinations thereof) that: (i) implement and are compliant with all relevant portions of a Specification, and (ii) are within the bounds of the Scope.
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(d) "Scope" means the protocols, electrical signaling characteristics, mechanical requirements for connectors, cards and cabling, register models, data structures and verbs software interface solely to the extent disclosed with particularity in a Specification where the sole purpose of such disclosure is to enable products to interoperate, interconnect or communicate as defined within a Specification. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Scope shall not include (i) any enabling technologies that may be necessary to make or use any product or portion thereof that complies with a Specification, but are not themselves expressly set forth in a Specification (e.g., semiconductor manufacturing technology, compiler technology, object oriented technology, basic operating system technology); (ii) the implementation of other published specifications not developed by or for the Corporation but referred to in the body of a Specification; or (iii) application programming interfaces, device drivers, device driver models, peripheral control languages, and peripheral devices, except for the portions of peripheral devices that are required by an interconnect that is compliant with a Specification.
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When the Member or its Affiliate makes a Contribution to a Specification of the Corporation, including revisions thereto, or when the Corporation adopts and approves for release a Specification after providing notice as set forth in Section 15.2, above, the Member and its Affiliates hereby agree to grant to other Members and their Affiliates under reasonable terms and conditions that are demonstrably free of any unfair discrimination, a nonexclusive, nontransferable, worldwide license under its Necessary Claims to allow such Members to make, have made, use, import, offer to sell, lease and sell and otherwise distribute Compliant Portions, provided that such agreement to license shall not extend to any part or function of a product in which a Compliant Portion is incorporated that is not itself part of the Compliant Portion. Each Member agrees that they will not transfer, and have not transferred, patents having Necessary Claims for the purpose of circumventing this Section 15.3.
