[Patents] W3C: Public review of Patent Policy Framework Last Call

[ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es (Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez)]

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