Call for Exclusions: Verifiable Credentials Data Model v1.1

Dear Advisory Committee representative,

This is a W3C Patent Policy Call for Exclusions for the following
Recommendation Track document upon publication of Patent Review Draft.

  Verifiable Credentials Data Model v1.1
  https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/REC-vc-data-model-20211109/
  exclusion opportunity ending on 2022-01-08
  This specification was produced by:
      - the Verifiable Credentials 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, a Recommendation with Proposed
Corrections, is being developed under the 2021 W3C Process Document and the
2020 W3C Patent Policy.
According to the Process, "The combination of the existing Recommendation
with the proposed amendments included in the Last Call for Review of
Proposed Amendments is considered a Patent Review Draft for the purposes of
the Patent Policy."

Participants made a Royalty-Free licensing commitment upon joining
this Working Group. With the publication of this Patent Review Draft, per
section 4.1 of the Patent Policy [1], Participants have an opportunity
until 2022-01-08 to exclude patent claims reading on this Patent
Review Draft. In this exclusion opportunity, exclusions are limited
to matter in the Patent Review Draft that was not present or
apparent at a previous exclusion opportunity.
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-20200915/#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/groups/wg/vc/ipr

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact,
for the Verifiable Credentials Working Group:
    Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
  
Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

[1] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20200915/#sec-exclusion-with

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Received on Tuesday, 9 November 2021 13:00:38 UTC