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At 08:53 AM 10/5/2001 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: >Draconian, sure. But it does the right thing by shifting the burden from >everyone else in the world to find out that concept Y has been patented >to the holder of the patent to _make known_ that they hold a patent on Y. From a practical stand point, this is difficult to accomplish. The organization's Advisory Committee representative is the one responsible for such disclosures at the time W3C activities are proposed. These individuals often earnestly attempt to comply, but aren't given the support from their organizations to do so -- meaning time, and access to the IP counsel and/or departments that manage the IP portfolios (which can have thousands and thousands of properties when you're talking about IBM, Xerox, and other large organizations). Draconian contract wording looks good, but violations are likely to be commonplace despite it. Ann Ann Navarro, WebGeek Inc. http://www.webgeek.com/ What's on my mind? http://www.snorf.net/blog/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hooya waling waling wi tiyil!
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