Overview

Every member may take an active part in maintenance and further development of the PROFIBUS and PROFINET technology. This guarantees openness and vendor independence of these technologies.

The document 'Guidelines for the Technical Committees and Working Groups' (TC/WG Guidelines) describes the rules for TC and WG.

The 'Intellectual Property Rights Policy' (IPR Policy) contains rules for dealing with copyrights and industrial property rights within the context of TC and WG. The work undertaken by the TC and WG is aimed at producing results (documents, software) that can be used by members and integrated into products. However, the work they do can sometimes involve issues of copyright or industrial property rights (patents and utility models respectively their applications). The document aims to ensure that the results of the aforementioned work are made available to members without license fees being charged. This IPR Policy applies to all technologies specified by the PNO.