XForms Patent Statements

The following statements are the patent disclosures and license commitments associated with the W3C XForms deliverables and provided by members of the XForms WG as required by W3C procedure. These statements may be subject to modification based on discussions during the W3C Advisory Council review period.
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 the XForms specification document and other WG deliverables is vested in the W3C.

Summary of patent statements for XForms 1.0

This table summarizes patent statements for XForms 1.0 from XForms WG members who are in good standing and those in not in good standing. Either these members have provided patent disclosures and license commitments statements or have stated that they do not have intellectual property rights relating to the XForms WG. The 'license summary' column is a W3C Team characterization of the Member's statement into one of three general types of licenses: 1) Royalty-free, 2) Reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (RAND), or 3) no license offer because the Member claims it has no relevant patents. This summary is not offered to suggest the exact licensing terms. The precise terms of any licence, however, are governed entirely by the Member's statement. Names in the 'Member name' column mentionned with an * are invited experts.

1- Provided patent statements from XForms WG Members for XForms1.0

Adobe:

Adobe's been participating as a grandfathered guest from Jetform, but it is time (or past) for Adobe to comply with the new charter and WG membership. Rob's been a participant for a while, so I don't think an introduction is needed. So, simply stated, we agree to participate according to the charter at http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2000/Charter.html from April 5, 2002 as a royalty-free working group.
I do not have personal knowledge of any IPR claims held by Adobe Systems Incorporated regarding Xforms as of the date of the submission of this statement. You can forward this to the group at largeor email archives, if required.

Chuck Myers, Adobe Systems, crm@adobe.com

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Cardiff Software, Inc.:

Intellectual Property Rights (please choose one)
[ X ] Based upon our current knowledge, and without making an exhaustive search, we do not have essential patent claims relating to this proposal
[ ] We do have patent claims that we believe will be essential for the implementation of the proposed W3C Specification and have chosen to make them available to all on (check one)
[ ] royalty-free, with other reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (or)
[ ] reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, with the potential for charging fees
Please list details of the associated patents or patent applications as appropriate.

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Computer Associates:

Intellectual Property Rights (please choose one)

[X] Based upon our current knowledge, and without making an exhaustive search, we do not have essential patent claims relating to this proposal

[no] We do have patent claims that we believe will be essential for the implementation of the proposed W3C Specification and have chosen to make them available to all on (check one)

[no] royalty-free, with other reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (or) [no] reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, with the potential for charging fees Please list details of the associated patents or patent applications as appropriate.

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EDF R&D:

Hi, here is the patent form.

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Intellectual Property Rights (please choose one)

[ X ] Based upon our current knowledge, and without making an exhaustive search, we do not have essential patent claims relating to this proposal
[ ] We do have patent claims that we believe will be essential for the implementation of the proposed W3C Specification and have chosen to make them available to all on (check one)
[ ] royalty-free, with other reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (or)
[ ] reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, with the potential for charging fees
Please list details of the associated patents or patent applications as appropriate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Regards, Vincent Godefroy

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Helsinki University Of Technology:

Intellectual Property Rights (please choose one)
[X] Based upon our current knowledge, and without making an exhaustive search, we do not have essential patent claims relating to this proposal
[ ] We do have patent claims that we believe will be essential for the implementation of the proposed W3C Specification and have chosen to make them available to all on (check one) [ ] royalty-free, with other reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (or)
[ ] reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, with the potential for charging fees
Please list details of the associated patents or patent applications as appropriate.

Regards, Mikko Honkala Invited Expert Helsinki University Of Technology

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Hewlett-Packard:

3a) Disclosure. Please select one of the following three options: Patents essential to these deliverables should be disclosed according to section 3 of W3C's Current Patent Practice Note [2].

[ x] To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the above deliverables.

[ ] My organization has patents that may be essential to the above deliverables. (Patent numbers must be listed here.)

[ ] 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. 3b) Licensing. Please select the following option if applicable:

[x ] 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 6 of the Current Patent Practice Note [3]) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.

Jim Bell, W3C Advisory Committee representative for Hewlett-Packard.

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IBM:

Intellectual Property Rights (please choose one)

[X] Based upon our current knowledge, and without making an exhaustive search, we do not have essential patent claims relating to this Working Group

NOTE: In the event we find any patents with essential patent claims we will disclose such claims to the Working Group with the terms under which they will be available for licensing

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Netscape:

Here is the patent statement of XForms from Netscape.
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Disclosure.
Please select one of the following three options:

Patents essential to these deliverables should be disclosed according to section 3 of W3C's Current Patent Practice Note [2]. [X] To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the above deliverables.

Ray Whitmer

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NTT DoCoMo:

Here is the patent statement of XForms from NTT DoCoMo.
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Intellectual Property Rights (please choose one)

[X] Based upon our current knowledge, and without making an exhaustive search, we do not have essential patent claims relating to this proposal
[ ] We do have patent claims that we believe will be essential for the implementation of the proposed W3C Specification and have chosen to make them available to all on (check one)
[ ] royalty-free, with other reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (or)
[ ] reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, with the potential for charging fees
Please list details of the associated patents or patent applications as appropriate.

Best Regards, Kaori Nakai

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Oracle:

Intellectual Property Rights (please choose one)

[X] Based upon our current knowledge, and without making an exhaustive search, we do not have essential patent claims relating to this proposal

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Origo Services:

Intellectual Property Rights (please choose one)

Patents essential to these deliverables should be disclosed according to section 3 of W3C's Current Patent Practice Note [2].

[X] To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the above deliverables.

Andy Teasdale

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PureEdge:

Intellectual Property Rights (please choose one)

[ X ] Based upon our current knowledge, and without making an exhaustive search, we do not have essential patent claims relating to this proposal

[ ] We do have patent claims that we believe will be essential for the implementation of the proposed W3C Specification and have chosen to make them available to all on (check one)

[ ] royalty-free, with other reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (or)

[ ] reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, with the potential for charging fees Please list details of the associated patents or patent applications as appropriate.

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Sun:

3a) Disclosure. Please select one of the following three options:

Patents essential to these deliverables should be disclosed according to section 3 of W3C's Current Patent Practice Note [2].

[ X] To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the above deliverables.

[ ] My organization has patents that may be essential to the above deliverables. (Patent numbers must be listed here.)

[ ] 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.

3b) Licensing. Please select the following option if applicable:

[X ] 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 6 of the Current Patent Practice Note [3]) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.

Eduardo Gutentag

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Xerox:

Intellectual Property Rights statement:

[X] Based upon our current knowledge, and without making an exhaustive search, we do not have essential patent claims relating to this proposal.

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SAP/Mozquito:

Intellectual Property Rights statement:

Intellectual Property Rights (please choose one)
[ X ] Based upon our current knowledge, and without making an exhaustive search, we do not have essential patent claims relating to this proposal
[ ] We do have patent claims that we believe will be essential for the implementation of the proposed W3C Specification and have chosen to make them available to all on (check one)
[ ] royalty-free, with other reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (or)
[ ] reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, with the potential for charging fees Please list details of the associated patents or patent applications as appropriate.

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Openwave:

Intellectual Property Rights (please choose one)
[X] Based upon our current knowledge, and without making an exhaustive search, we do not have essential patent claims relating to this proposal
[ ] We do have patent claims that we believe will be essential for the implementation of the proposed W3C Specification and have chosen to make them available to all on (check one)
[ ] royalty-free, with other reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (or)
[ ] reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, with the potential for charging fees Please list details of the associated patents or patent applications as appropriate.
Kevin Wagner Director, Technology kevin.wagner@openwave.com
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Novell:

Intellectual Property Rights (please choose one)
[X] Based upon our current knowledge, and without making an exhaustive search, we do not have essential patent claims relating to this proposal
[ ] We do have patent claims that we believe will be essential for the implementation of the proposed W3C Specification and have chosen to make them available to all on (check one)
[ ] royalty-free, with other reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (or)
[ ] reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, with the potential for charging fees Please list details of the associated patents or patent applications as appropriate.

Based upon our current knowledge we do not haved essential patent claims relating to this proposal. Accepted by: Kirk Klasson Novell AC Rep for W3C
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Ericson(Sony):

Intellectual Property Rights Declaration from Ericsson
[X] Based upon our current knowledge, and without making an exhaustive search, we do not have essential patent claims relating to this Working Group

Declaration of Ericsson (RAND): Ericsson may or may not own patents or patent applications which apply to the "...XForms..." specifications of the W3C. If implementation of a W3C standard based on the "...Xforms..." specification requires the use of Ericsson patents, Ericsson will grant, upon written request, a non-exclusive license under such patents on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Ericsson expressly disclaims any and all warranties regarding this "Contribution" including any warranty that this "Contribution" does not violate the rights of others or is fit for a particular purpose.
The definitions of "Essential Claims," "Member," "Affiliate," "RAND License," and "Royalty-Free License" in effect for the above statement are those found in the W3C Patent Policy Framework dated 16 August 2001, located at <http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-patent-policy-20010816/>.
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Johan HJELM, Senior Specialist Ericsson Research
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2- Provided patent statements from W3C Members not part of XForms WG

Shana:

Shana had a press release that claimed they had a patent that "impacts" XForms. The release used to be at http://www.shana.com/press/releases/48.asp but was removed.
The relevant quote from the release is at
http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1035 and also some bits at http://www.entrust.com/news/files/01_22_01_656.htm

XForms WG:

Digital signature: XForms 1.0 does not address signatures of digest authentication, but technically it should be possible in a future version. However, the XForms WG is aware of a patent (note: we believe the scope of the patent is outside the scope of XForms 1.0). cf. current W3C Team knowledge on the Shana Patent: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-forms/2001JanMar/0105.html

Note that the disclosure at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/patent-issues/2001JanMar/0025.html
does not mention XForms at all.

Thierry Michel tmichel@w3.org