Re: Call for Exclusions: Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0

What is the situation regarding Patents that already exist and that were
not written by members of the working group, but that may cover part of
the WG document? In other words, if anyone was to use the W3C
recommendation they might unwhittingly be encroaching on a pre-existing
patent of a third party that no-one in the WG knew about.

Kind regards

David

On 26/07/2019 00:59, sysbot+ipp@w3.org wrote:
> 
> Dear Advisory Committee representative,
> 
> This is a W3C Patent Policy Call for Exclusions for the following
> Recommendation Track document:
> 
>    Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0
>     https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/CR-vc-data-model-20190725/
>         exclusion opportunity ending on 2019/09/23
>     
> This specification was produced by
>  the Verifiable Claims 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.
> 
> This Recommendation Track document is being developed under the 2019 W3C
> Process Document.
> 
> Participants made a Royalty-Free licensing commitment upon joining
> this Working Group. With the publication of this Candidate Recommendation, per
> section 4.1 of the Patent Policy [1], Participants have an opportunity
> until 2019/09/23 to exclude patent claims reading on this Candidate
> Recommendation. In this exclusion opportunity, exclusions are limited
> to matter in the Candidate Recommendation that was not present or
> apparent in the Reference Draft.
> Note that other exclusion opportunities may still be open on the same document,
> covering earlier material.
> 
> 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/#sec-Exclusion
> 
> To make exclusions, please use the following form
>   https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/98922/exclude
> 
> 
> Summary information for this group related to the W3C Patent Policy is
> available at:
>    https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/98922/status
> 
> If you have any questions or need further information, please contact,
> for the Verifiable Claims Working Group:
>    Kazuyuki Ashimura <ashimura@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;
> Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications
> 
> [1] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy/#sec-exclusion-with
> 
> 
> [1] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy/#sec-exclusion-with
> 
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Received on Friday, 26 July 2019 09:28:25 UTC