W3C DOM Working Group Patent Disclosures and Exclusions

This page summarizes patent disclosures by participants in W3C's DOM Working Group as required by section 6 of the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy. Note: This disclosure mechanism applies to all W3C Working Groups after 15 February 2004, per the Patent Policy Transition Procedure.

W3C takes no position regarding either:

  1. 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, or
  2. the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available.

DOM Working Group Disclosures

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

Corel

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

IBM

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

AOL Time Warner

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

Oracle

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

X-Hive Corporation

To the best of my personal knowledge, my organization has no patents essential to the above 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 6 of the Current Patent Practice Note) to all implementers, whether or not they are Members of W3C.

Apple

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

How to Make a Patent Disclosure or Exclusion

Any individual wishing to disclose a patent for any specification produced by the DOM Working Group should use the DOM Working Group patent disclosure form. Anyone in a Member organization who wishes to make a disclosure must contact their Advisory Committee representative, who will make the disclosure. The general public is also invited to make disclosures.

Please note that you must have an W3C account to use the disclosure form; see the account sign-up form for a public account.

Exclusions by DOM Working Group Participants

This section lists exclusions by DOM Working Group Participants (AC representatives of participating Members, Team representatives, invited experts). Currently, there are no exclusions.

Member Disclosures

Per the W3C Patent Policy, parties that commit to the W3C Royalty-Free Licensing Terms are not required to disclose patents. Any party (not just the Working Group Participants) may commit to these licensing terms.

List here which parties have made this commitment.

W3C Members that do not commit to the W3C Royalty-Free Licensing Terms are obligated to disclose when they receive a request for disclosure and have personal knowledge.

No disclosure so far.

Other Disclosures

Anyone else may make a disclosure.

No disclosure so far.


Philippe Le Hégaret, W3C Team contact

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