[OpenID] Opened IPR Policy Draft

[James A. Donald]

 > > > So the technology is first proposed and described
 > > > on this list, on 2006 December 7, 2006.  It is
 > > > incorporated into the standard and comes to be
 > > > widely used around about, say, 2007 August.  On
 > > > 2007 December 5, 2007, the patent troll has a
 > > > friendly individual inventor file an patent
 > > > application claiming to have invented the
 > > > technology on 2007, december 6.

David Nicol wrote:
 > but the openID standard is more than a year old
 > already.

Changes and enhancements to the openID standard are
patentable.  When the standard was originally proposed,
it was far from clear that it would be widely adopted,
so it is unlikely that anyone patented it in time, so
the original standard is safe from IP.