Re: Patent Policy issues...

On 3/13/12 6:23 AM, ext Carr, Wayne wrote:
> But later is not the same people.  A CG creates a Community Spec where a participant has personal knowledge of patents that contain essential claims.  A WG adopts the Community Spec.  Someone gets sued for implementing.
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> The disclosure rules are lightweight.  They involve personal knowledge, not any patent search.  They prevent the situation that someone knows technology being added to a spec is encumbered but the group producing the spec does not.
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> For the reason Charles mentioned, there should be a disclosure requirement in CGs ( based on personal knowledge like for W3C members and TRs).

Yeah I agree. It seems like a relatively large bug in the CG PP to not 
require disclosures for CG specs.

IJ - why was this done?

-Thanks, Art

Received on Tuesday, 13 March 2012 10:39:18 UTC