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Web Services Description Working Group

IPR disclosures

The following statements are the patent disclosures and license commitments associated with the Web Services Description Documents and provided by members of the Web Services Description Working Group as required by the W3C Current Patent Practice, and other members of the W3C.

W3C does not take a position regarding the validity or scope of any intellectual property right or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology, nor the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available. Copyright of WG deliverables is vested in the W3C.

Per the Current Patent Pactrice document,

All disclosure statements made by W3C Members are made public with each publicly-visible Working Draft

Note: Members of the Working Group are expected to disclose any intellectual property they have in the area. This WG will work on a royalty-free basis, as defined in the W3C Current Patent Practice document. The Working Group is thus obliged to produce a specification which relies only on intellectual property available on a royalty-free basis.

Steve Graham

I [Steve Graham] do not have personal knowledge of any IPR claims held regarding WSDL.

Nokia

Under condition that all members of the

Web Services Description Working Group

agrees to change its current patent practice to act as a Royalty-Free Working Group, Nokia is prepared to grant a Royalty-Free license according to the following statement:

Regarding Essential claims in respect of the

Web Services Description

specifications in W3C standardization, to the extent those Essential claims are included into the final

Web Services Description

specifications in W3C standards, Nokia and its Affiliates agrees not to assert those claims in Nokia patent(s) that is/are necessary to implement those parts of the final

Web Services Description

specifications against any other party in respect of its implementation of the specification, provided that the party relying on this commitment agrees not to assert patents against Nokia or its Affiliates.

Jonathan Marsh

I [Jonathan Marsh] do not have personal knowledge of any IPR claims held regarding WSDL.

Oracle

My organization has patents that may be essential to the above deliverables.

I, Jeff Mischkinsky, Advisory Committee representative for Oracle Corporation hereby submit the following IPR statement for the Web Services Description Working Group:

To the best of my personal knowledge, Oracle has no essential patents. However, Oracle has a published patent application that may result in the issuance of one or more essential claims. The identifying information for this application is as follows:

ORACLE US Patent Application: "System for Dynamically Invoking Remote Network Services Using Service Descriptions Stored in a Service Registry"
US Patent Office Application Number: 10/120,175
Publication Date: August 29, 2002

If any essential claims issue from the above application, Oracle agrees to license any party on royalty-free terms to use such claims to the extent necessary to implement the Recommendation arising from the Web Services Description working group. This license may be conditioned on the licensee's grant of a royalty-free license to Oracle to use its essential claims to the extent necessary to implement the Recommendation arising from the Web Services Description working group. Oracle reserves the right to require additional licensing terms (including, but not limited to, a different reciprocal licensing provision and/or a defensive suspension provision) as permitted for royalty-free licenses under the W3C patent policy in effect at the time the license is executed.

My organization may or may not have patents essential to the above deliverables. If we do, we agree to license them on Royalty-Free terms (as defined in section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.

Steve Tuecke

I [Steve Tuecke] do not have personal knowledge of any IPR claims held regarding WSDL.

webMethods

This statement supercedes all other intellectual property rights (IPR) statements made by webMethods, Inc. for the W3C Web Services Description (WSD) Working Group, is based upon the working knowledge of those webMethods representatives actively involved in the development of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) specification (Participant(s)) and does not represent the result of a webMethods patent portfolio search. webMethods authorizes W3C to make this IPR statement public.

Participant(s) are currently unaware of any patents or pending patent applications (either published or unpublished) held by webMethods which contain Essential Claims relative to the WSDL specification, as currently defined and understood.

Should Participant(s) become aware of Essential Claims relative to the current Recommendation of the WSDL specification, then webMethods will undertake to inform the W3C of the existence of such Essential Claims and will provide, upon written request from implementers of the WSDL specification, a worldwide nonexclusive license, under royalty free and other reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, for use of such Essential Claims, in accordance with webMethods' then current and usual licensing terms, to the extent necessary for compliant implementation of the WSDL specification.

webMethods' contribution and the information contained herein is provided on an "AS IS" basis and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, webMethods provides its contribution AS IS AND WITH ALL FAULTS, and hereby disclaims all other warranties and conditions, either express, implied or statutory, including, but not limited to, any (if any) implied warranties, duties or conditions of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, of accuracy or completeness of responses, of results, of workmanlike effort, of lack of viruses, and of lack of negligence, all with regard to the contribution. ALSO, THERE IS NO WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, QUIET POSSESSION, CORRESPONDENCE TO DESCRIPTION OR NON-INFRINGEMENT WITH REGARD TO THE CONTRIBUTION.

IN NO EVENT WILL WEBMETHODS OR PARTICIPANTS BE LIABLE TO ANY OTHER PARTY INCLUDING THE W3C AND ITS MEMBERS FOR THE COST OF PROCURING SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF DATA, OR ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR SPECIAL DAMAGES WHETHER UNDER CONTRACT, TORT, WARRANTY, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THIS OR ANY OTHER AGREEMENT RELATING TO THIS CONTRIBUTION, WHETHER OR NOT SUCH PARTY HAD ADVANCE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Nortel Networks

Nortel Networks makes the following disclosure to these issued patents, and any related pending applications, it is presently aware that may be essential or pertinent to work before the Web Services Description (WSDL) Working Group:

Nortel Networks is not and has not been a participant of the WSDL Working Group. It is noted that the W3C Royalty-Free Patent Policy is directed to working group participants. Submission of this disclosure is not to be construed as a request by Nortel Networks to become, nor to be considered as, a participant of the WSDL Working Group.

Further, this disclosure is to bring to the attention of the WSDL Working Group, and the W3C generally, that although Nortel Networks would be willing to make licenses available to these patents, it will not be making licenses available under the RF Licensing Requirements set out in the W3C Patent Policy, adopted by the Director 20-May-2003, to any Essential Claims of these issued patents or related patent applications, including continuation, divisional, reexamination and reissue patent applications, and any patents issuing therefrom.

Following W3C's request for clarification:

I [Abbie Barbir] do not think a WSDL 2.0 implementation would necessarily infringe the Nortel patent or patents specified in the previous Nortel disclosure statement you reference [1]; thus, it is my own limited, individual, personal and present belief that Nortel patent is not essential to the proposed WSDL 2.0 Recommendation standard as it exists at this date.

SAP AG

[Sinisa Zimek: ] My organization may or may not have patents essential to the above deliverables. If we do, we agree to license them on Royalty-Free terms (as defined in section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.

Systinet

[Jacek Kopecky: ] To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the Working Group deliverables. My organization may or may not have patents essential to the above deliverables. If we do, we agree to license them on Royalty-Free terms (as defined in section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.

Cyclone Commerce

[Dale Moberg: ] To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the Working Group deliverables. My organization may or may not have patents essential to the above deliverables. If we do, we agree to license them on Royalty-Free terms (as defined in section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.

TIBCO Software, Inc.

[Don Mullen: ] To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the Working Group deliverables. My organization may or may not have patents essential to the above deliverables. If we do, we agree to license them on Royalty-Free terms (as defined in section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.

Computer Associates

[Igor Sedukhin: ] To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the Working Group deliverables. My organization may or may not have patents essential to the above deliverables. If we do, we agree to license them on Royalty-Free terms (as defined in section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.

SAIC - Telcordia Technologies

[Marek Rusinkiewicz: ] My organization will respond to this question at a later date, indicating one of the two previous options. I understand that failure to indicate one of the above two options by the time the Recommendation-track deliverable(s) enter Candidate Recommendation (or Proposed Recommendation if there is no Candidate Recommendation) will render my disclosure obligation incomplete, as described in the Current Patent Practice Note.

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

[Eduardo Gutentag: ] To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the Working Group deliverables. My organization may or may not have patents essential to the above deliverables. If we do, we agree to license them on Royalty-Free terms (as defined in section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.

BEA Systems, Inc.

[David Orchard: ] To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the Working Group deliverables. My organization may or may not have patents essential to the above deliverables. If we do, we agree to license them on Royalty-Free terms (as defined in section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.

IONA

[Eric Newcomer: ] To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the Working Group deliverables. My organization may or may not have patents essential to the above deliverables. If we do, we agree to license them on Royalty-Free terms (as defined in section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.

Sonic Software

[Glen Daniels: ] To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the Working Group deliverables. My organization may or may not have patents essential to the above deliverables. If we do, we agree to license them on Royalty-Free terms (as defined in section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.

Sanjiva Weerawarana

To the best of my personal knowledge, I have no patents essential to the Working Group deliverables.

Adobe Systems Inc.

[Charles Myers: ] To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the Working Group deliverables. My organization may or may not have patents essential to the above deliverables. If we do, we agree to license them on Royalty-Free terms (as defined in section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.

Xerox Corporation

[Shriram Revankar: ] To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the Working Group deliverables. My organization may or may not have patents essential to the above deliverables. If we do, we agree to license them on Royalty-Free terms (as defined in section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.


Hugo Haas, W3C Team contact

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