[OpenID] OpenID IPR Policy Draft

[Gabe Wachob]

Gavin-

           This is a legitimate issue (the issue of disclosure of essential
claims in unpublished applications), though I think at least in OASIS, there
is no distinction made between essential claims in patents and essential
claims in patent applications. 

           The W3C patent policy is a little odd in the case of disclosure
requirements for unpublished applications - it talks about a patent
application that is based on a w3c document, but does not seem to talk about
unpublished patent applications that include essential claims (ie the case
where patent applications come before the w3c document which I think is the
real issue). By implication, I take this to mean that the w3c patent policy
does NOT require disclosure of essential claims in unpublished patent
applications.

OASIS IPR policy simply requires disclosure of essential claims in issued
patents or unpublished patent applications. 

           -Gabe

 

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From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
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Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 9:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [OpenID] OpenID IPR Policy Draft

 

Again - as the new guy...

 

It gives me a pretty thorough understanding of what's expected.

With regards to your Open Issue (2), Since it is from the community
perspective would it not be appropriate to have;

 

(obviously my  text will require some tweaking ....)

"When in doubt - Bring to our attention the possibility of a conflict at the
earliest time"

 

As a a follow-up question - and I am assuming it is a "legal" question  -
but does the act of disclosing a conflict / possible conflict have any
possible side-effect along the lines of disclosing commercial-in-confidence
information etc?

 


>>> "Recordon, David" <drecordon at verisign.com> Thursday, December 07, 2006
06:42 >>>
Hey guys,
Been working with Gabe, and others, on starting to draft an IPR Policy
for OpenID specifications.  We'd appreciate feedback in terms of if what
is written captures the correct intent of the community?  We realize the
language isn't technically as tight as it needs to be, though first want
to make sure it is saying the right thing.  It is largely based on the
IPR Policy for Microformats.

http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/IPR_Policy

Thanks,
--David
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