- From: <ri@odrl.net>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:13:17 +1000
- To: Kristian Sons <kristian.sons@dfki.de>
- Cc: public-council@w3.org
On 30 Jun 2011, at 20:07, Kristian Sons wrote: > Company A has a bright idea for CG B and contributes it. Now it's published as agreed by CLA. For some reason, CG B is not successful and discontinues its work. Now company A decides to exploit the bright idea in a proprietary product and would like to protect the idea using a patent. <non-legal-advice> Hi Kristian - since you have contributed (ie made public) the "bright idea", you will not be able to Patent it. </non-legal-advice> Cheers Renato Iannella ODRL Initiative http://odrl.net
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