- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:42:15 -0800
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Hello, Eighteen people attended the Patent Policy Working Group (PPWG) face-to-face meeting held on 5-6 February 2002, in Menlo Park, CA, USA. Both the open source/free software task force and the RAND task force reported preliminary findings. Discussion was organized around a "Major Decisions for RF Patent Policy" issues list compiled from comments by W3C Members on the 16 August Last Call Working Draft. The decisions list was divided into groups: defensive suspension, timing of exclusion, Working Group participation after exclusion, resigning from a Working Group, requirements for participants who join late, design patents, US government obligations, universal reciprocity, geographic scope of licenses, starting date of license requirements, scope of disclosure obligation, discovery of Essential Claims after a Recommendation is published, GPL harmonization, licenses for "fully compliant" implementations, license grant language, RAND track or exception process, obligations of Submitters, and obligations of invited experts. Straw polls were taken on many of these points. The royalty-free (RF) internal Working Draft was updated with the results. 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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