From ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es  Wed Aug 29 13:45:45 2001
From: ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es (Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:45:45 +0200
Subject: [Patents] W3C: Public review of Patent Policy Framework Last	Call
In-Reply-To: <D40B270649ACD3118E2800A0C9E319F30991E787@xatl01.atl.hp.com>; from scott_k_peterson@hp.com on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:20:45PM -0700
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Message-ID: <20010829144545.A25518@jl1.quim.ucm.es>

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:20:45PM -0700, PETERSON,SCOTT K (HP-USA,ex1) wrote:
> For better or for worse, RAND licensing is not new with the W3C. It is the
> focus of the patent policies of a number of standards organizations (for
> example, ISO, ECMA, ETSI, ITU).

The important point is whether it is a good move or a bad move, not
what other organizations are doing. It is legitimate that we defend
what is fair in our opinion. Futhermore, while W3C standard cover
important file formats, there are no difficult algorithms nor anything
where patentability can be even argued.

Ramon


