Call for Exclusions: Four Candidate Recommendations by CVS on the Web Working Group

Dear Advisory Committee representative,

This is a W3C Patent Policy Call for Exclusions for the following
Recommendation Track documents:

- Model for Tabular Data and Metadata on the Web
   (http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/CR-tabular-data-model-20150716/),
   exclusion opportunity ending on 14 September 2015 23:59 UTC

- Metadata Vocabulary for Tabular Data
   (http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/CR-tabular-metadata-20150716/),
   exclusion opportunity ending on 14 September 2015 23:59 UTC

- Generating RDF from Tabular Data on the Web
   (http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/CR-csv2rdf-20150716/),
   exclusion opportunity ending on 14 September 2015 23:59 UTC

- Generating JSON from Tabular Data on the Web
   (http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/CR-csv2json-20150716/),
   exclusion opportunity ending on 14 September 2015 23:59 UTC


These specifications were produced by the CSV on the Web Working Group.

If you do not wish to exclude patent claims during this exclusion
opportunity, no further action is required. Member participants who think
their organization may have patent claims to exclude should contact their
Advisory Committee Representative.

This Recommendation Track document is being developed under the 2014 W3C
Process Document, which combines former Last Call and Candidate
Recommendation requirements under the single label "Candidate
Recommendation."  For more information, see:
https://www.w3.org/wiki/ProcessTransition2014

Participants made a Royalty-Free licensing commitment upon joining this
Working Group. With the publication of these documents, per section 4.1 of
the Patent Policy [1], Participants have an opportunity until 14 September
2015 23:59 UTC to exclude patent claims reading on these Candidate
Recommendations. In this exclusion opportunity, exclusions are limited to
matter in the Candidate Recommendation that was not present or apparent in
these drafts:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-tabular-data-model-20140327/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-tabular-metadata-20140710/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-csv2rdf-20150108/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-csv2json-20150108/


Excluded claims are not subject to the licensing requirements of the W3C
Patent Policy for this document. For more information about exclusions,
please see
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exclusion

To make exclusions, please use the following form:
  https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/68238/exclude

Summary information for this group related to the W3C Patent Policy is
available at:
  http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/68238/status

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact,
for the CSV on the Web Working Group:
  * Ivan Herman ativan@w3.org 
<mailto:ivan@w3.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BReminder%5D%20Send%20Call%20for%20Exclusion&In-Reply-To=%3CE1ZFjzR-0001CO-QL%40jessica.w3.org%3E&References=%3CE1ZFjzR-0001CO-QL%40jessica.w3.org%3E>

For more information on the W3C Patent Policy and patent claim
exclusions, see:
   http://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director;
Xueyuan Jia
W3C Communications Team

[1]http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclusion-with
[2]http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclusion-resign

Received on Friday, 17 July 2015 07:44:57 UTC