IIW History 1990-2015

With the agreements with ISQ and EWF coming to a close, preliminary discussions regarding the IIW IAB and the respective authority of its officers were undertaken at the first meeting of the Task Group Governance (TG-GOV) in 2008. This was appropriate since TG-GOV had been formed to improve the operational clarity of how IIW carried out its affairs and the licence agreement between IIW and EWF was an important process by which both organisations would work closely together. At this meeting it was stated that ISQ had managed the work for both EWF and IIW within the framework of the existing contract between ISQ/IIW and EWF. 32 A new contract, therefore, was required to be negotiated before the end of 2009. A further meeting was held between IIW and EWF representatives at TWI in Cambridge, UK in December 2008. It was agreed that, since EWF owned and maintained the copyright of the operating documents, then the right for IIW to use this documentation was still conditional on a new licencing agreement between the two organisations to replace all previous agreements. At the meeting of the Board of Directors in January 2009 the licence agreement between IIW and EWF was discussed. It was then recommended by the Board that a new licence agreement be prepared between IIW and EWF and that a Secretariat contract be also prepared between IIW, ISQ and EWF. Certain points of this draft licence agreement were discussed at a later meeting of TG-GOV in Singapore on 14 July 2009 including the end date at which point both EWF and IIW would be free to use the documents. 33 At the Board of Directors meeting two days earlier, the IIW President Prof. Dr-Ing. Ulrich Dilthey (Germany) had proposed that the terms of the draft licence be agreed upon and that any comments be submitted by email since the dateline for signature was the end of the year 2009. 34 The licence agreement between IIW and EWF was actually signed just before this deadline on the 24 November 2009 by Dilthey for IIW and Jessop for EWF. IIWwas granted non-exclusive rights within Europe and exclusive rights elsewhere, to market, use and offer for sale, EWF intellectual property over a 20-year period. This period commenced from the end date of the original agreement which had been signed with EWF on 1 January 1999. At the 2010 Annual Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey, two months later, concern was voiced by certain members of IIW regarding the licence agreement. 35 After these concerns were addressed the Board of Directors then confirmed the licence agreement with EWF. Included in the licence agreement was the payment of royalties to EWF for a fixed period of time. This, interestingly, was an issue much debated prior to the signing of the original licence agreement with EWF when royalties were not included. The IIW Board of Directors then saw a rejuvenation of C-XIV as a key Working Unit instrumental in the accomplishment of the goal ‘to identify, develop and implement

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