- From: Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:25:29 -0400
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>, public-w3process <public-w3process@w3.org>, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
On 3/22/2012 10:13 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:10:27 +0100, Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org> wrote: >> Companies in the same WG can't sue each other about RF work in that >> WG. They do sue each other all the time for non-RF protected work. > > The argument was that you are not protected until Recommendation and > that therefore we need to get to Recommendation. If we have protection > solely by being in the same WG, that argument does not seem to hold. > > Generally large companies are methodical about patent lawsuits. They carefully select their targets. Hence they won't select targets if they know that (soon :)) there will be RF protection. As long as we have a process that methodically moves towards RF we are OK (doesn't have to be the current process). If we don't have a process that leads to RF, being in the same WG won't protect anyone.
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