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- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:10:30 +0000
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Nick, The following is agreed: “….has raised an innovative suggestion concerning FRAND terms for the data needed to implement a standard. There is nothing that would prevent such a clause being part of the charter therefore providing all web participants the certainty that should they wish to implement independently the standards of the group those that worked on them have already agreed to not only licence the intellectual property related to patents but also access to the necessary input data from their products. As a concrete example I would know that if Google and Mozilla joined the Working Group that they would licence me the data needed to implement the standard outside of a web browser and there would be no need to negotiate such an agreement with them in the future. However Apple if they did not join the group would be under no such obligation. This concept is identical to intellectual property associated with patents and seems very important where functionality is desirable to implement outside the web browser to avoid the web browser becoming a chokepoint.” The next point but it was not what I was seeking to put forward. With kind regards, Tim Tim Cowen | Chair Antitrust Practice ddl +44 20 7332 5645<tel:+44%2020%207332%205645> m +44 78 0224 1629<tel:+44%2078%200224%201629> ***@***.*** Preiskel & Co LLP, 4 King's Bench Walk, Temple, London EC4Y 7DL t +44 20 7332 5640<tel:+44%2020%207332%205640> f +44 20 7332 5641<tel:+44%2020%207332%205641> www.preiskel.com<http://www.preiskel.com/> personal profile<http://www.preiskel.com/people/tim-cowen/> Chambers & Partners Competition, IT & Telecoms Leading Firm 2018 Legal 500 Technology, Media and Telecoms Leading Firm 2017 WhosWhoLegal Telecoms Media & Tech Leading Lawyers 2017 Global Law Experts Communications Law Firm of the Year 2016 Preiskel & Co LLP is a law firm authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and is incorporated in England & Wales with partnership number OC306371 and Registered Office at 4 King's Bench Walk, Temple, London EC4Y 7DL. A list of members is available for inspection at the office. The SRA rules can be found at http://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/handbook/code/content.page. Preiskel & Co LLP takes the privacy and security of personal data and confidential information seriously. The content of this e-mail, including any attachments, is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, and may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected against disclosure. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify us ***@***.******@***.***> and delete it from your system. On 28 Jun 2022, at 16:58, Nick Doty ***@***.***> wrote: has raised an innovative suggestion concerning FRAND terms for the data needed to implement a standard. There is nothing that would prevent such a clause being part of the charter therefore providing all web participants the certainty that should they wish to implement independently the standards of the group those that worked on them have already agreed to not only licence the intellectual property related to patents but also access to the necessary input data from their products. As a concrete example I would know that if Google and Mozilla joined the Working Group that they would licence me the data needed to implement the standard outside of a web browser and there would be no need to negotiate such an agreement with them in the future. However Apple if they did not join the group would be under no such obligation. This concept is identical to intellectual property associated with patents and seems very important where functionality is desirable to implement outside the web browser to avoid the web browser becoming a chokepoint. -- GitHub Notification of comment by timcowen Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/patcg/meetings/issues/52#issuecomment-1169059932 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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