Call for Exclusions (Update): WebDriver

Dear Advisory Committee representative,

This is an update regarding the W3C Patent Policy exclusion opportunity
for the following Recommendation Track document:

- WebDriver
 (http://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/),
 exclusion opportunity ending on  7 December 2012 23:59 UTC

This specification was produced by the Browser Testing and Tools Working
Group.

If you do not wish to exclude patent claims during this exclusion
opportunity, no further action is required.

Participants have until  7 December 2012 23:59 UTC to exclude claims
reading on this Recommendation track document; 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:
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/49799/exclude

Per section 4.1 of the Patent Policy [1], the draft identified by the
following URI establishes the reference material for the purposes of this
exclusion opportunity:

  WebDriver
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-webdriver-20120710/


All Participants currently in the Working Group have made Royalty-Free
licensing commitments for this document. Participants wishing to resign
from this group should review licensing obligations and exclusion
opportunities described in section 4.2 of the Patent Policy [2].

Summary information for this group related to the W3C Patent Policy is
available at:
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/49799/status

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact,
for the Browser Testing and Tools Working Group:
* Michael[tm] Smith at mike@w3.org

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;
Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications

[1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclusion-with
[2] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclusion-resign
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Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)    http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
Tel:                                      +1 718 260 9447

Received on Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:46:26 UTC