- From: Alan Langford <jal@ambitonline.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:58:20 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Section 7: reasonable, for the purposes of avoiding standards that infringe on patents which require fees or registration of any sort. Sections 4&5: W3C standards should at all times be implementable without the encumbrances of royalties. RF Mode is minimally acceptable; RAND mode will simply ensure that other unencumbered standards emerge. History has proven this so. RF mode should also require that any subsequent patents derived from the original patent also default into RF mode, making it a "viral" grant of patent rights. One alternative approach that you have not contemplated in this document is the outright transference of relevant patent rights to an administrative body, such as the W3C itself, or preferably (from my point of view) the FSF. As holders of "essential claims" patents, these organizations could then require the "liberation" of other ludicrous patent claims as royalty for use of W3C standards that require use of patents inside the W3C domain. -------------- Alan Langford jal@ambitonline.com Ambit Perspectives (416)621-9899
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