Re: Disclosure of IPR that "might" be relevant

Virtually all of the timestamping patents are key here as well - and will
likely blow some of the document signing patents that have been recently
applied for, cleanly out of the water.

Todd

----- Original Message -----
From: Scott McLeod (by way of "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle@w3.org>)
<smcleod@factpoint.com>
To: IETF/W3C XML-DSig WG <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
Cc: <smcleod@factpoint.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 2:49 PM
Subject: Disclosure of IPR that "might" be relevant


>
> We have intellectual property rights which may be related to the signing
of
> HTML and XML documents. These are embodied in two patent applications
filed
> in the current year and possibly other future patents.
>
> It is our intention to license any aspects of these patents relevant to
the
> work of the digital signature group to W3C members and members of the XML
> digital signature group under fair, nominal and non-discriminatory terms.
>
> We will disclose the filed patents after we have finished amending the
> claims.
> We expect that any future patents derived from technology developed or
> currently planned will either not affect the XML signature group effort,
or
> have only a complimentary effect.
>
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