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Subject: RE: [legalxml-sc] Inquiry About IP
- From: "Cabral, James E." <[email protected]>
- To: "Winters, Roger" <[email protected]>,<[email protected]>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:26:33 -0800
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Roger,
I believe the OASIS FAQ and current IPR policy covers
this:
What are the IPR Policies
of OASIS?
Most OASIS specifications are provided to the public on a Royalty-Free (RF) basis. The OASIS IPR Policy http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.shtml states that contributors of externally developed technical work must identify all IP claims (patents, trademarks, etc.) associated with that work, and must agree to grant use of this technology under RAND or RF terms for purposes of implementing the OASIS specification. It
does not say that contributors must be OASIS members. Therefore, as long
as he identifies all IP claims and agrees to grant use of the technology under
the described terms, it should be fine.
However, this all may change under the new IPR
policy.
Jim Cabral From: Winters, Roger [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 2:12 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Clarke, Tom Subject: [legalxml-sc] Inquiry About IP Hello,
A question came up to me from the LegalXML Court Filing TC asking me to refer it to the Steering Committee. Since we are scheduled for a Steering Committee meeting on February 9, perhaps by then someone will have found answers.
Specifically, as Eric Tingom was working on materials he's reviewing as he prepares to draft "Court Filing-Blue," he noted that Tom Griffin of ACS had contributed to developing User Use Cases. Eric noted that Mr. Griffin is not an OASIS member, so he emailed Tom Clarke to indicate that he wonders what intellectual property issues might be related to Griffin's participation in our process.
The question seems to come down to this: If a non-OASIS member who is from a company, not an individual, contributed to our project, are there IP issues that flow from that? If so, what are the issues and implications?
I do not have an intimate knowledge of our IP policies, so I have not ventured any ideas or suggestions about this, except to point out to Eric and Tom that any IP issues for Mr. Griffin would have to have arisen from the existing IP, not from policies that are not yet adopted within OASIS. I do not, however, know how to access the pertinent statement of IP that would apply to Mr. Griffin's work with Shane Durham.
Thoughts? Questions?
Thank you!
Roger
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