RE: [ebxml-dev] Freely available patents from IBM - but what about ebXML

["David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

Mike,
 
This is a "case closed" - here's the announce:
 
 http://www.itworld.com/Man/2687/020419ebxmlpatent/
 
As I said - not sure what formally changed hands - believe there was a letter from Bob Sutor to OASIS and CEFACT - but given that previously existing item - it appears superfluous/conflicting for IBM to again issue something that may potentially make the already existing conditions appear less clear.
 
DW

"The way to be is to do" - Confucius (551-472 B.C.)


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [ebxml-dev] Freely available patents from IBM - but what
about ebXML CPPA?
From: Mike Rawlins <mcr2@rawlinsecconsulting.com>
Date: Thu, July 12, 2007 11:09 am
To: "David RR Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info>, 
ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org

I don't believe it was. If any patents had been covered it would have 
required more than just an agreement between OASIS and CEFACT. Normally, 
the participants in an effort are required to agree to an IP policy as a 
condition of contributing work. The ebXML Work Group was never a formal 
entity, and it didn't have any IP policies. I don't recall being asked 
to abide by either the OASIS or CEFACT IP policies.

I would like to see IBM tie up the loose ends on TP XML and include it 
on this or a similar list.

-----------------------------------------
Michael C. Rawlins, Rawlins EC Consulting
www.rawlinsecconsulting.com



David RR Webber (XML) wrote:
> Anders,
> 
> I suspect because that TP XML patent was already covered by the
agreement with OASIS and CEFACT in 1999?
> 
> DW
>
> "The way to be is to do" - Confucius (551-472 B.C.)
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [ebxml-dev] Freely available patents from IBM - but what about
> ebXML CPPA?
> From: "opensource@toolsmiths.se" <opensource@toolsmiths.se>
> Date: Thu, July 12, 2007 2:25 am
> To: ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org
>
> In an interesting and welcome pressrelease 
> <http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0276035.htm>IBM

> releases a large number of specifications 
> <http://www-03.ibm.com/linux/opensource/isplist.shtml>from patent 
> inhibitation. But what about the patents behind the ebXML CPPA 
> specification? Are they still there and if so the questions becomes,
why 
> arent the CPPA spec in the list? Afterall Bob Sutor should have some 
> knowledge of ebXML.
>
> <http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0276035.htm>
> <http://www-03.ibm.com/linux/opensource/isplist.shtml>
>
> <http://knowledge-bct.workem.org/blog/?p=13>
>
> - 
>
> Best Regards
> /Anders
>
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