Joint Patent Policy Proposal

Hi PSIG,
Hi Ever[green|blue] friends,

On 7 July 2019, I sent comments on the proposed Evergreen Patent Policy in Feedback on the proposed Evergreen Patent Policy[1] and Approach to an Everblue Patent / IPR policy[2]. The goal of these messages was to a) fix some problems inherent to the current drafting of the Evergreen Patent Policy and b) make some largely cosmetic changes (renaming terms to be more generic), and import a few missing sections from the currently-active W3C Patent Policy, to make the proposed Evergreen Patent Policy something that could be used for the W3C Process as a whole, as per the recommendation of the AB taskforce working on Evergreen and related topics.

To better characterize the suggested changes and to provide concrete proposals for incorporation into the proposal, we imported PSIG’s DRAFT Evergreen Patent Policy (as it was on July 24th) and drafted proposed changes. 

To help explain these proposed changes, we drafted a document that reiterates the problems outlined in the two emails (along with a few new ones discovered along the way), and explains each of the proposed edits:
      https://frivoal.github.io/w3c-ipr/patent-policy-suggestions.html

You can also see the final result at:
      https://frivoal.github.io/w3c-ipr/w3c-ipr-policy.html
and the diff between your July 24th DRAFT Evergreen Patent Policy and our proposed update at:
     https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Ffrivoal.github.io%2Fw3c-ipr%2FOriginal20190724-DRAFT+Evergreen+Patent+Policy.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Ffrivoal.github.io%2Fw3c-ipr%2Fw3c-ipr-policy.html

We hope you enjoy reading this as much as we had fun writing it. :)

—Florian & fantasai
[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2019Jul/0001.html
[2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2019Jul/0002.html

Received on Monday, 29 July 2019 22:53:40 UTC