- From: Daniel Weitzner <djweitzner@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:20:23 -0500
- To: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Cc: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>, SWBPD <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
I'm coming in on the middle of this thread, but allow me ask one question: has any made a patent disclosure asserting that patents/ applications referenced here are essential? thx, Danny On Nov 17, 2005, at 9:45 PM, Jim Hendler wrote: > 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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