Fwd: Call for Exclusions: HTML+RDFa 1.1

To the experts among us:-)

Niklas raised the question whether he has to fill the patent form; here is Ian's answer. Bottom line: unless you _do_ have a patent, you can ignore it.

Ivan

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: Call for Exclusions: HTML+RDFa 1.1
> Date: February 9, 2013 21:44:59 GMT+01:00
> To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
> Cc: Niklas Lindström <lindstream@gmail.com>, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
> 
> 
> On 9 Feb 2013, at 2:33 PM, Ivan Herman wrote:
> 
>> Niklas,
>> 
>> switching in the experts on the matter:-) I believe that it certainly helps in this case if invited experts also sign that form.
>> 
>> Ian? Manu?
> 
> We haven't in the past asked invited experts to complete the form. If you think it's relevant, let me know. If the invited experts don't own any patents, we can forget it.
> 
> Ian
> 
>> 
>> Ivan
>> 
>> ---
>> Ivan Herman
>> Tel:+31 641044153
>> http://www.ivan-herman.net
>> 
>> (Written on mobile, sorry for brevity and misspellings...)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 9 Feb 2013, at 20:57, Niklas Lindström <lindstream@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Ivan,
>>> 
>>> Just to be absolutely sure: "no further actions required" applies to
>>> me here, right? Since I'm not an Advisory Committee Representative and
>>> I have no patent claims.
>>> 
>>> (Making extra sure about this since we're under a tight deadline and I
>>> don't want to botch anything administrative.)
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Niklas
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
>>> Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:06 PM
>>> Subject: Call for Exclusions: HTML+RDFa 1.1
>>> To: public-rdfa-wg@w3.org
>>> Cc: member-cfe@w3.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dear Advisory Committee representative,
>>> 
>>> This is a W3C Patent Policy Call for Exclusions for the following
>>> Recommendation Track document:
>>> 
>>> - HTML+RDFa 1.1
>>> (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-in-html/),
>>> exclusion opportunity ending on  8 April 2013 23:59 UTC
>>> 
>>> This specification was produced by the RDFa Working Group.
>>> 
>>> NOTE: The Working Group Chairs have asked for the opportunity to end this
>>> exclusion period early in light of the group's desired publication
>>> schedule. We have
>>> created a form for Advisory Committee Representatives of participating
>>> Members to
>>> indicate their support for ending this exclusion period early. Please
>>> see the form
>>> for all details:
>>> https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/44350/earlyexcl2013/
>>> 
>>> The remainder of this email is the standard text and applies if you do
>>> not wish to
>>> end the exclusion opportunity early.
>>> 
>>> If you do not wish to exclude patent claims during this exclusion
>>> opportunity, no further action is required.
>>> 
>>> Participants made a Royalty-Free licensing commitment upon joining this
>>> Working Group. With the publication of this document, per section 4.1 of
>>> the Patent Policy [1], Participants have an opportunity until  8 April 2013
>>> 23:59 UTC to exclude patent claims reading on this Last Call draft.  At
>>> Last Call, exclusions are limited to matter in the Last Call draft that was
>>> not present or apparent in this draft:
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-rdfa-in-html-20120911/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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/44350/exclude
>>> 
>>> Summary information for this group related to the W3C Patent Policy is
>>> available at:
>>> http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/44350/status
>>> 
>>> If you have any questions or need further information, please contact,
>>> for the RDFa Working Group:
>>> * Ivan Herman at ivan@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
>> 
> 
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> Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)    http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
> Tel:                                      +1 718 260 9447
> 


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