CC/PP Patent Disclosures

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Stephane Boyera: July 24, 2003
Kazuhiro Kitagawa: May 31, 2002
Revised: August 7 2002, August 22 2002, July 24 2003

IPR Disclosures

This document lists patent disclosures and license commitments by W3C Members relating to the CC/PP Working Group andDI Working Group. The statements are provided by members of the CC/PP and DI Working Group as required by W3C process.

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 CC/PP document and other WG deliverables is vested in the W3C.

Both the CC/PP Working Group and DI Working Group are Royalty-Free Groups as defined in W3C's Current Patent Practice.

Summary of patent statements for CC/PP: Structure and Vocabularies

This table summarizes patent statements for CC/PP that were made by CC/PP WG members in good or bad standing. Members were asked to provide patent disclosures and licensing statements for Essential Claims in the CC/PP specification. 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. Members who offered a royalty free license were not required to declare 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. Please note that the links to the original IPR statements are only available to W3C members, but the statements themselves are available below.

Regarding Essential claims in respect of the

 CC/PP: Structure and Vocabularies specification

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

 CC/PP: Structure and Vocabularies specification

in W3C standards, Nokia and its Affiliates agrees not to
assert those claims in Nokia patents that are technically
necessary to implement those parts of the final

 CC/PP: Structure and Vocabularies specification

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.