- From: <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:34:08 +0200
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com>, Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
06.10.2014, 09:19, "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 2:28 PM, š<chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote: >> šSo the question turns on whether the changes would invalidate a patent review, and my quick guess is that the answer is "yes" ;( > > Really? I would have made the opposite conclusion. Changing the event > source makes a very small difference in behavior. I would greatly > surprise me if it affected the applicability of a given patent. There are a lot of patents that hang on such slender threads. And PAGs have been formed for them, only to discover that such a simple change made the difference between the patent being relevant or not. > That said, it is theoretically possible. But that seems to be true for > *any* normative change of a spec. Right. That's why normative changes require returning to Last Call. :( It seems that the way patents are handled, at least in the US which effectively seems to be the only jurisdiction W3C really cares about, is slowly changing. But slowly - and for some time we're probably tied to the fact that almost any normative changes can effectively revoke the licensees given under the Patent Policy. :( cheers -- Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex chaals@yandex-team.ru - - - Find more at http://yandex.com
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