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 |
|---|---|---|
| SPARQL Query Language for RDF | ||
| Agfa-Gevaert N. V. [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Asemantics S.R.L. [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Bristol, University of [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Clark & Parsia LLC [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Cleveland Clinic [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Eindhoven University of Technology [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Free University of Bozen-Bolzano [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| FSTC (Financial Services Technology Consortium) [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Garlik [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Hewlett Packard Company [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| IBM Corporation [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| International Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild (IWA-HWG) [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT) [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| OpenLink Software Inc. [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Oracle Corporation [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Profium [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Southampton, University of [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| University of Aberdeen, Computing Science [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| University of Innsbruck [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| University of Manchester [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Vrije Universiteit [Member] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Lee Feigenbaum [Inv. Exp.] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Eric Prud'hommeaux [Team] | Committed to W3C RF licensing as of 16 May 2008 | Extends to latest version |
| Brandsoft, Inc. [non-Member. Per Frank Careccia, CTO] | RF Commitment stopped on 10 January 2005 | Doesn't apply since participant left the group before 90 days after the FPWD |
| Cerebra [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 27 February 2008 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2008-01-15 |
| Digital Harbor Inc. [non-Member. Per Jaffrey Ali, Senior Product Manager] | RF Commitment stopped on 21 May 2005 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-04-19 |
| ERCIM [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 05 May 2004 | Doesn't apply since participant left the group before 90 days after the FPWD |
| Hicks & Associates, Inc. [non-Member. Per Bryan Thompson, System Architect] | RF Commitment stopped on 03 January 2006 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-11-23 |
| Institut fuer wissenschaftliche Information e.V. [non-Member. Per Roland Schwaenzl] | RF Commitment stopped on 08 January 2008 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2008-01-15 |
| Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland [non-Member. Per ] | RF Commitment stopped on 26 July 2007 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2007-06-14 |
| Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (MEI) [non-Member. Per Takashi Kakiuchi] | RF Commitment stopped on 05 December 2007 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2007-11-12 |
| Sun Microsystems, Inc. [Member] | RF Commitment stopped on 05 October 2007 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2007-06-14 |
| Tucana Technologies, Inc. [non-Member. Per Simon Raboczi] | RF Commitment stopped on 17 February 2005 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-02-17 |
| Jeen Broekstra [Inv. Exp.] | RF Commitment stopped on 07 October 2005 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2005-07-21 |
| Dan Connolly [Team] | RF Commitment stopped on 02 April 2007 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2007-03-26 |
| Patrick Hayes [Inv. Exp.] | RF Commitment stopped on 21 August 2007 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2007-06-14 |
| Howard Katz [Inv. Exp.] | RF Commitment stopped on 21 August 2007 | Commitment stops as of version dated of 2007-06-14 |
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).