Call for Exclusions (Updated): GRDDL Primer, Use Cases

Dear Advisory Committee representative,

This is a reminder of the W3C Patent Policy exclusion opportunity for
the following Recommendation Track documents:

- GRDDL Primer
  (http://www.w3.org/TR/grddl-primer/),
  exclusion opportunity ending on  1 March 2007
- GRDDL Use Cases: Scenarios of extracting RDF data from XML documents
  (http://www.w3.org/TR/grddl-scenarios/),
  exclusion opportunity ending on  1 March 2007

These specifications were produced by the GRDDL Working Group.

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

This is a reminder that Participants have until  1 March 2007 to exclude
claims reading on these Recommendation track documents; 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/39407/exclude


Per section 4.1 of the Patent Policy [1], the drafts identified by the
following URIs establish the reference material for the purposes of
these exclusion opportunities:

 GRDDL Primer:
 http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-grddl-primer-20061002/

 GRDDL Use Cases:
 http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-grddl-scenarios-20061002/


All Participants currently in the Working Group have made Royalty-Free
licensing commitments for these documents. 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/39407/status

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact,
for the GRDDL Working Group:
 * Dan Connolly at connolly@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
-- 
Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)   http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
Tel:                     +1 718 260-9447