- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:45:13 -0500
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>, SWBPD <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: Danny Weitzner <djweitzner@w3.org>
At 13:20 +0000 11/17/05, Jeremy Carroll wrote: >I have sent two more messages on this topic > >substantive >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/patent-issues/2005OctDec/0001 > >procedural >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/patent-issues/2005OctDec/0002 > >I am consulting with colleagues, and expect to make a proposal soon. > >Jeremy Jeremy - the first link in the substantive document is returning an invalid search, the second one does indeed point to a patent application (not granted) that might effect us, but it does not seem to directly relate to the issue of Semantic markup (it does talk to region and annotation, but seems to me there's a lot of prior art). In fact, since Adobe Photoshop (XMP) and all the flickr stuff would violate the patent if it issues, I suspect there's soem interesting politics here (I cc Danny Weitzner to make him aware of this). I think it would be a shame to not publish this important note because of this issue, and think that putting in the informed information about this as per policy (directing people to a patent statement and mentioning these two patents) would be sufficient. I also note that we are not recommending specific markup vocabulary or etc, so there is not actual item that is offered royalty free except our advice that people consider semantic markup, so I think this is likely a moot issue - but I look forward to hearing from Danny or other appropriate authority thanks for pointing this out JH -- Professor James Hendler Director Joint Institute for Knowledge Discovery 301-405-2696 UMIACS, Univ of Maryland 301-314-9734 (Fax) College Park, MD 20742 http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler (New course: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/CMSC498w/)
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