Call for Exclusions: Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0

Dear Advisory Committee representative,

This is a W3C Patent Policy Call for Exclusions for the following
Recommendation Track document upon publication of a Patent Review Draft.

  Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0
  https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/CR-did-core-20210615/
  exclusion opportunity ending on 2021-08-14
  This specification was produced by:
      - the Decentralized Identifier 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 2020 W3C
Process Document and Patent Policy.

Participants made a Royalty-Free licensing commitment upon joining
this Working Group. With the publication of this Patent Review Draft, per
section 4.1 of the Patent Policy [1], Participants have an opportunity
until 2021-08-14 to exclude patent claims reading on this Patent
Review Draft. In this exclusion opportunity, exclusions are limited
to matter in the Patent Review Draft that was not present or
apparent at a previous exclusion opportunity.
Note that other exclusion opportunities may still be open on the same document,
covering earlier material.

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

To make exclusions, please use the following form
  https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/117488/exclude


Summary information for this group related to the W3C Patent Policy is
available at:
  https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/did/ipr

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact,
for the Decentralized Identifier Working Group:
    Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
  
Thank you,

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

[1] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy/#sec-exclusion-with
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Received on Wednesday, 16 June 2021 00:00:45 UTC