OWL Working Group Patent Policy Status

Participation

W3C Member Organizations

Alcatel-Lucent (1 representative)
CA (1 representative)
Cable Television Laboratories Inc (1 representative)
China Electronics Standardization Institute (1 representative)
Cleveland Clinic (1 representative)
CNR--Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (1 representative)
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) (no representative)
DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland (1 representative)
Dreamlab Technologies AG (1 representative)
Ecole Superieure Polytechnique (4 representatives)
Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) (4 representatives)
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2 representatives)
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Gmbh (1 representative)
IBM Corporation (1 representative)
Image Video & Multimedia Systems Laboratory of National Technical University of Athens (IVML-NTUA) (2 representatives)
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (2 representatives)
Mayo Clinic (4 representatives)
Meraka Institute (1 representative)
MITRE Corporation (1 representative)
National ICT Australia (NICTA) Ltd (1 representative)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (3 representatives)
Open University (no representative)
Oracle Corporation (1 representative)
Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (1 representative)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (3 representatives)
Sandpiper Software, Inc. (1 representative)
Stanford University (no representative)
University of Aberdeen, Computing Science (1 representative)
University of Amsterdam (1 representative)
University of Manchester (3 representatives)
University of Oxford (5 representatives)

Invited Experts

James Hendler

Team members

Sandro Hawke
Ivan Herman

See also the list of individuals participating in this group.

Join or leave this group (see general instructions for joining this group). Advisory Committee Representatives of participating Members may also nominate or change representatives in the group.

The Call for Participation for this group was announced on 6 September 2007; see the Patent Policy FAQ for information about continued participation before re-joining the group.

Note: Please see additional disclosure and/or licensing information associated with this group (e.g., information about a PAG, or disclosures that pre-date the W3C Patent Policy).

Licensing Commitments

Participants in this group have made certain licensing commitments by joining the group. See the details about licensing commitments from current and past Participants and other parties.

W3C Members not participating in this group who wish to make the same licensing commitments for specifications developed by this group may do so through a form for licensing commitments from non-participating Members.

Other parties who wish to make the licensing commitments for this group should consult the instructions for non-Members to make licensing commitments for this group.

Specifications for this group

The following is the list of specifications produced by the OWL Working Group that have associated disclosures obligations, and possibly licensing obligations under the W3C Patent Policy.

Recommendations
Specification	Policy	Disclosures
OWL 2 Web Ontology Language: Mapping to RDF Graphs	W3C	None
OWL 2 Web Ontology Language: Direct Semantics	W3C	None
OWL 2 Web Ontology Language: Structural Specification and Functional-Style Syntax	W3C	None
OWL 2 Web Ontology Language:Profiles	W3C	None
OWL 2 Web Ontology Language:XML Serialization	W3C	None
OWL 2 Web Ontology Language:RDF-Based Semantics	W3C	None
OWL 2 Web Ontology Language:Conformance and Test Cases	W3C	None
rdf:text: A Datatype for Internationalized Text Jointly developed with Rule Interchange Format Working Group.	W3C	None

See the detailed information on how to disclose a patent, and how to add licensing terms below.

Note: If a specification does not appear in this table, the group may have identified it as being "informative only." To add or modify an item in this table, please refer to the IPP instructions.

Patent Disclosures

This section summarizes patent disclosures by participants in W3C's OWL Working Group as required by section 6 of the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy. Note: This disclosure mechanism applies to all W3C Working Groups after 15 February 2004, per the Patent Policy Transition Procedure.

W3C takes no position regarding either:

the validity or scope of any intellectual property right or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology, or
the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available from those not participating in this group.

W3C Members are obligated to disclose a patent when they receive a request for disclosure and have personal knowledge of the patent under the following conditions:

the specification has been developed under the W3C Patent Policy and the Member has not committed to the W3C Royalty-Free Licensing Terms,
the specification has been developed under the 24 January 2002 CPP as amended by the W3C Patent Policy Transition Procedure

Where disclosure is required by a W3C Member, the AC Representative makes the disclosure.

Anyone else may also make a disclosure.

Known Disclosures

No patent disclosures have been made for any specifications of this group.

How to Make a Patent Disclosure

W3C Members and Invited Experts (including those not participating in this group) wishing to disclose a patent for any specification produced by the OWL Working Group should use the OWL Working Group patent disclosure form.

Disclosures from the general public should be sent to the Staff Contacts of this group.

For specifications developed under the W3C Patent Policy, parties that commit to the W3C Royalty-Free Licensing Terms are not required to disclose patents. Any party (not just the Working Group Participants) may commit to the W3C Royalty-Free Licensing Terms and may do so by following the instructions in the next section.

Additional Licensing Information

As described in section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy:

All Working Group participants are encouraged to provide a contact from which licensing information can be obtained and other relevant licensing information. Any such information will be made publicly available along with the patent disclosures for the Working Group in question.

Patent holders may:

Provide the same additional licensing information for all documents with associated licensing obligations produced by this Working Group, or
Provide additional licensing information for any W3C document with associated licensing obligations produced by any W3C Working Group under the W3C Patent Policy.

Please recall that, per section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy, a W3C Royalty-Free license:

may not impose any further conditions or restrictions on the use of any technology, intellectual property rights, or other restrictions on behavior of the licensee, but may include reasonable, customary terms relating to operation or maintenance of the license relationship such as the following: choice of law and dispute resolution.

Any additional licensing information that has been provided is listed below. The section below will be empty when no additional licensing information has been provided.

Note: All actions carried out through this system are reported by email to the relevant parties; copies are sent to w3c-archive@w3.org (Member-readable archive).