The table below summarizes the commitments under the W3C Patent Policy from current and former Participants for this specification.
Per section 4.2 of the W3C Patent Policy a Participant may resign from the Working Group within 90 days after the publication of the first public Working Draft and be excused from all licensing commitments arising out of Working Group participation.
Non-Members may also make licensing commitments for this specification; please see the instructions for non-Members. Note: W3C takes no position regarding the validity or scope of licensing commitments from non-Members; non-Members are not bound by the W3C Member Agreement.
| Name | Licensing Commitment Status | Licensing commitments for |
|---|---|---|
| Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Normalization | ||
| Adobe Systems Inc. [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Afilias Limited [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Baidu, Inc. [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Department of Information Technology, Government of India [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenieurs Rabat (EMI) [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Gmbh [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Google, Inc. [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| International Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild (IWA-HWG) [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Israel Internet Association (isoc-il) [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Microsoft Corp. [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Mozilla Foundation [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Opera Software [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Oracle Corporation [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| University of Limerick [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Hiroyuki Chiba [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| David Clarke [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Andrew Cunningham [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Martin Dürst [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Junzaburo Edamoto [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Elika Etemad [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| David Filip [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Richard Ishida [Team] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Koji Ishii [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Toshi Kobayashi [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Tatsuo KOBAYASHI [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Norbert Lindenberg [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Kenzou Onozawa [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Addison Phillips [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Felix Sasaki [Team] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| François Yergeau [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| INNOVIMAX [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| DUPLICATE: ENLASO Corporation [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 02 October 2009 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-10-27 |
| DUPLICATE: NetApp [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 10 August 2011 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-10-27 |
| Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenieurs Rabat (EMI) [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Google, Inc. [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Hewlett Packard Company [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 04 August 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-10-27 |
| IBM Corporation [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 20 February 2007 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-10-27 |
| JustSystems Corporation [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 15 January 2010 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-10-27 |
| Library of Congress [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 12 March 2012 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-10-27 |
| Sun Microsystems, Inc. [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 17 August 2010 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-10-27 |
| University of Applied Sciences Potsdam [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 06 April 2012 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-10-27 |
| webMethods, Inc. [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 20 February 2007 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-10-27 |
| Yahoo!, Inc. [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 06 June 2011 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-10-27 |
| Martin Dürst [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Elika Etemad [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Richard Ishida [Team] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Addison Phillips [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Felix Sasaki [Team] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
| Hajime Shiozawa [Inv. Exp.] | RF Commitment stopped on 01 May 2012 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-10-27 |
| François Yergeau [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 02 June 2012 | Extends to latest version |
Note: All actions carried out through this system are reported by email to the relevant parties; copies are sent to w3c-archive@w3.org (Member-readable archive).