Call for Exclusions (Updated): Packaged Web Publications; Web Annotation Extensions for Web Publications

Dear Advisory Committee representative (bcc’ed),

This update establishes the reference draft of the current W3C Patent
Policy exclusion opportunity for:

- Packaged Web Publications
 (https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-pwpub-20180104/),
 exclusion opportunity ending on  3 June 2018 23:59 UTC

- Web Annotation Extensions for Web Publications
 (https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-wpub-ann-20180104/),
 exclusion opportunity ending on  3 June 2018 23:59 UTC


These specifications were produced by the Publishing 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.

Participants have until  3 June 2018 23:59 UTC 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
  https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exclusion

To make exclusions, please use the following form:
  https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/100074/exclude


See section 4.1 of the Patent Policy [1] for more information about
exclusion with continued participation. 

  Packaged Web Publications
  https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-pwpub-20180104/

  Web Annotation Extensions for Web Publications
  https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-wpub-ann-20180104/


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:
  https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/100074/status

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact,
for the Publishing Working Group:
  * Ivan Herman at ivan@w3.org

For more information on the W3C Patent Policy and patent claim
exclusions, see:
  https://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director;
Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Communications

[1] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclusion-with
[2] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclusion-resign

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Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Marketing & Communications -  https://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +337 810 795 22 https://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

Received on Thursday, 5 April 2018 11:14:43 UTC