RE: Current Patent Practices

Hi,

In section 3. of the Current Patent Practices Note:

 http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-patent-practice-20020124

it says:

[[
All disclosure statements made by W3C Members are made 
public with each publicly-visible Working Draft (public 
Working Draft, Last Call Working Draft, Candidate Recommendation, 
Proposed Recommendation, Recommendation).
]]

Since I was unable to find any public IPR disclosure in the Jan 18, 2002 
XForms WD:

 http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/

perhaps a check for the above should be added to the Publication
Rules:

 http://www.w3.org/Guide/pubrules

so that Public IPR disclosure is visible (directly or indirectly)
in all publicly released documents.  

BTW, the above doesn't seem to include IPR disclosure from invited 
experts.

Regards,

Art Barstow
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Received on Tuesday, 12 March 2002 08:26:01 UTC