- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:45:03 -0800
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Hello, Fifteen people attended the 28 January 2002 Patent Policy Working Group (PPWG) teleconference. They briefly planned to compile issues lists for their upcoming face-to-face meeting and then continued to review the Royalty-Free (RF) internal draft. Attention was given to the idea of defensive suspension, the case when an RF license would be suspended if a licensor were sued for infringing a patent used to implement a W3C Recommendation. The point was raised that this should apply only to essential patents required to implement that specification. Two people offered language for a license grant. Then the group discussed possible requirements that Working Group participants and non-participating Members must disclose patents they hold that relate to requirements to implement a W3C Recommendation. The question of unpublished patent applications was raised. The group discussed whether or not W3C's patent policy should say explicitly that a Member's legal department needs to be or does not need to be consulted in order to make disclosures, and whether patent searches are needed. There was some consensus that there are great differences between Members who would treat this requirement differently. Best wishes, -- Susan Lesch http://www.w3.org/People/Lesch/ mailto:lesch@w3.org tel:+1.858.483.4819 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/
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