Call for Exclusions: SPARQL Protocol for RDF

Dear Advisory Committee representative,

This is a Call for Exclusions for the following Recommendation Track
document:
- SPARQL Query Language for RDF (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/),
exclusion opportunity ending on 26 September 2005

This specification was produced by the RDF Data Access Working Group
Please use the following form to make exclusions.
 http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/35463/exclude

Note: this is the 2nd for exclusions for this specification. Per
section 4.1 of the W3C Patent Policy [a], exclusions during this exclusion
opportunity are limited to subject matter not present or apparent in the
drafts available during the previous exclusion opportunity:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2005JanMar/0014.html

[a] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-exclude-mec

Summary information related to the W3C Patent Policy is available at:
 http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/35463/status

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact,
for the RDF Data Access Working Group:
 * Eric Prud'hommeaux at eric@w3.org

For more information on the W3C Patent Policy and patent claim
exclusions, see:
  http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exclusion
  http://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq.html#start

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director;
Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications
-- 
Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)   http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
Tel:                     +1 718 260-9447