Participation
- W3C Member Organizations
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- Alibaba Group (2 representatives)
- Apple, Inc. (8 representatives)
- AT&T (3 representatives)
- Baidu, Inc. (no representative)
- Bloomberg (1 representative)
- BT (1 representative)
- Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) (3 representatives)
- ERICSSON (1 representative)
- Google, Inc. (51 representatives)
- HTML5 Converged Technology Forum (1 representative)
- IBM Corporation (2 representatives)
- Inswave Systems Co., Ltd. (1 representative)
- Intel Corporation (10 representatives)
- jQuery Foundation (3 representatives)
- Microsoft Corp. (14 representatives)
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (5 representatives)
- Mozilla Foundation (11 representatives)
- NIC.br - Brazilian Network Information Center (2 representatives)
- Nokia Corporation (no representative)
- Opera Software (2 representatives)
- Orange (3 representatives)
- PayGate (3 representatives)
- Pearson plc (no representative)
- Prolifogy Inc. (1 representative)
- Red Hat (2 representatives)
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (4 representatives)
- Skynav, Inc. (1 representative)
- Telefónica (3 representatives)
- Tencent (2 representatives)
- The Paciello Group, LLC (4 representatives)
- Toshiba Corporation (1 representative)
- Viacom (2 representatives)
- WIZVERA Co., Ltd. (1 representative)
- Yandex (2 representatives)
- Invited Experts
- Daniel Appelquist
- Arthur Barstow
- Olivier Forget
- Lachlan Hunt
- Frederico Knabben
- Piotr Koszulinski
- Norbert Lindenberg
- Arun Ranganathan
- Geoffrey Sneddon
- Johannes Wilm
- Team members
- Yves Lafon
- Philippe Le Hégaret
- Wendy Seltzer
- Michael[tm] Smith
- Xiaoqian Wu
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 13 August 2014; 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 Web Applications Working Group that have associated disclosures obligations, and possibly licensing obligations under the W3C Patent Policy.
See the detailed information on how to
disclose a patent, how to exclude a patent claim 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 and Claim Exclusions
This section summarizes patent disclosures by participants in W3C's Web Applications 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:
Where disclosure is required by a W3C Member, the AC Representative
makes the disclosure.
Anyone else may also make a disclosure.
Known Disclosures
Disclosures for
Widget Updates
The entry in the first
column links to details about the disclosed patent,
including any excluded claims or additional licensing
information that has been provided.
Patent for Widget Updates | Licensing | Notes |
Issued patent '5,764,992' (U.S.) held by Apple, Inc.
| Claims excluded from Royalty-Free commitment:all claims, 1-30 inclusive | In March 2009 W3C launched a PAG to address this patent.
The PAG issued a PAG Report on 8 October 2009. The PAG
recommended to continue work as -in light of the the
collected prior art-the patent was considered not essential to
the Widgets Updates 1.0 Specification. |
Disclosures for
Widget Access Request Policy
The entry in the first
column links to details about the disclosed patent,
including any excluded claims or additional licensing
information that has been provided.
Patent for Widget Access Request Policy | Licensing | Notes |
Laid-open/published patent application #US Published Patent Application No. 11/432,295 and US Published Patent Application 11/409,276 (US) held by Apple, Inc.
| Claims excluded from Royalty-Free commitment:All claims, as well as any claims that issue in any continuations, divisionals, continuations-in-part, reissues or other counterparts. | PAG report |
Laid-open/published patent application #US-20070101433 and US 20070101146 (US) held by Apple, Inc.
| Claims excluded from Royalty-Free commitment:All claims, as well as any claims that issue in any continuations, divisionals, continuations-in-part, reissues or other counterparts. | PAG Report |
Disclosures for
Push API
The entry in the first
column links to details about the disclosed patent,
including any excluded claims or additional licensing
information that has been provided.
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 Web Applications Working Group should use the Web Applications 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.
Claim Exclusions
Only Web Applications Working Group participants may exclude patent claims concerning specifications developed under the W3C Patent Policy, per section
4 of the W3C Patent Policy. To make an exclusion, participants
should use the Web Applications Working Group patent claim
exclusion form, but only after first disclosing the patent.
Exclusion Opportunities
The Patent Policy FAQ provides detailed information
about exclusion opportunities, that is, when a
Working Group Participant can exclude a patent claim.
Each exclusion opportunity has a duration. See section
4.1 of the W3C Patent Policy and section 2 of
the Patent Policy Transition Procedure for information on how the
exclusion deadline is calculated.
At each exclusion opportunity, Participants may exclude patent
claims with respect to a body of text. The
Reference Draft is the reference body
of text for the current exclusion opportunity.
Note: At each new exclusion opportunity (e.g., in
the case of a second Last Call), exclusions are only with respect to
differences since the previous reference body of text. These
differences may be less than an entire document, and the summary below
does not (yet) address that granularity. Also, in some edge cases
(discussed in the FAQ),
Participants, depending on when they joined the Working Group, will
have different Reference Drafts; the summary below does not reflect this
case.
History of Exclusion Opportunities
- UI Events (formerly DOM Level 3 Events)
- Call for exclusion sent on 09 September 2010; opportunity ended on 04 February 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 31 May 2011; opportunity ended on 30 July 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 06 September 2012; opportunity ended on 05 November 2012
- XMLHttpRequest Level 1
- Call for exclusion sent on 18 November 2009; opportunity ended on 17 April 2010
- Clipboard API and events
- Call for exclusion sent on 13 April 2011; opportunity ended on 09 September 2011
- Selectors API Level 1
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 November 2008; opportunity ended on 13 January 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 02 July 2012; opportunity ended on 27 August 2012
- Packaged Web Apps (Widgets) - Packaging and XML Configuration (Second Edition)
- Call for exclusion sent on 22 December 2008; opportunity ended on 20 February 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 28 May 2009; opportunity ended on 27 July 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 29 October 2009; opportunity ended on 28 December 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 05 October 2010; opportunity ended on 04 December 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 22 March 2011; opportunity ended on 21 May 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 07 June 2011; opportunity ended on 06 August 2011
- Progress Events
- Call for exclusion sent on 19 October 2010; opportunity ended on 18 March 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 10 March 2011; opportunity ended on 09 May 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 12 September 2011; opportunity ended on 10 December 2011
- Requirement For Standardizing Widgets
- Call for exclusion sent on 25 June 2008; opportunity ended on 24 August 2008
- Call for exclusion sent on 19 September 2008; opportunity ended on 14 November 2008
- WebIDL Level 1
- Call for exclusion sent on 27 September 2011; opportunity ended on 26 November 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 08 February 2012; opportunity ended on 07 April 2012
- XML Digital Signatures for Widgets
- Call for exclusion sent on 30 April 2009; opportunity ended on 29 June 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 16 April 2010; opportunity ended on 14 June 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 11 May 2010; opportunity ended on 10 July 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 07 June 2011; opportunity ended on 06 August 2011
- Widget Updates
- Call for exclusion sent on 09 October 2008; opportunity ended on 06 March 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 22 March 2012; opportunity ended on 21 May 2012
- Widget Interface
- Call for exclusion sent on 10 February 2009; opportunity ended on 05 July 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 18 August 2009; opportunity ended on 17 October 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 17 November 2009; opportunity ended on 16 January 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 07 September 2010; opportunity ended on 10 September 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 07 June 2011; opportunity ended on 06 August 2011
- Programmable HTTP Caching and Serving
- Call for exclusion sent on 30 October 2009; opportunity ended on 28 March 2010
- File API
- Call for exclusion sent on 18 November 2009; opportunity ended on 16 April 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 13 September 2013; opportunity ended on 11 November 2013
- Server-Sent Events
- Call for exclusion sent on 23 April 2009; opportunity ended on 20 September 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 22 December 2009; opportunity ended on 20 February 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 10 March 2011; opportunity ended on 09 May 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 26 April 2012; opportunity ended on 25 June 2012
- Call for exclusion sent on 23 October 2012; opportunity ended on 22 December 2012
- Web SQL Database
- Call for exclusion sent on 10 September 2009; opportunity ended on 07 February 2010
- The WebSocket API
- Call for exclusion sent on 23 April 2009; opportunity ended on 20 September 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 29 September 2011; opportunity ended on 28 November 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 24 May 2012; opportunity ended on 23 July 2012
- Call for exclusion sent on 09 August 2012; opportunity ended on 08 October 2012
- Web Storage (Second Edition)
- Call for exclusion sent on 23 April 2009; opportunity ended on 20 September 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 22 December 2009; opportunity ended on 20 February 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 12 September 2011; opportunity ended on 10 December 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 25 October 2011; opportunity ended on 24 December 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 10 June 2015; opportunity ended on 08 August 2015
- Widget Access Request Policy
- Call for exclusion sent on 18 June 2009; opportunity ended on 15 November 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 08 December 2009; opportunity ended on 06 February 2010
- Widget URI scheme
- Call for exclusion sent on 18 June 2009; opportunity ended on 15 November 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 08 October 2009; opportunity ended on 07 December 2009
- Web Workers
- Call for exclusion sent on 23 April 2009; opportunity ended on 20 September 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 22 December 2009; opportunity ended on 20 February 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 10 March 2011; opportunity ended on 09 May 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 12 September 2011; opportunity ended on 10 December 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 13 March 2012; opportunity ended on 12 May 2012
- The 'view-mode' Media Feature
- Call for exclusion sent on 06 October 2009; opportunity ended on 05 March 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 20 April 2010; opportunity ended on 19 June 2010
- Indexed Database API
- Call for exclusion sent on 29 September 2009; opportunity ended on 26 February 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 24 May 2012; opportunity ended on 23 July 2012
- Call for exclusion sent on 16 May 2013; opportunity ended on 15 July 2013
- Uniform Messaging Policy, Level One
- Call for exclusion sent on 26 January 2010; opportunity ended on 25 June 2010
- File API: Directories and System
- Call for exclusion sent on 26 October 2010; opportunity ended on 25 March 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 25 January 2011; opportunity ended on 25 March 2011
- File API: Writer
- Call for exclusion sent on 26 October 2010; opportunity ended on 25 March 2011
- Selectors API Level 2
- Call for exclusion sent on 19 January 2010; opportunity ended on 18 June 2010
- HTML5 Web Messaging
- Call for exclusion sent on 19 November 2010; opportunity ended on 17 April 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 21 February 2011; opportunity ended on 17 April 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 17 March 2011; opportunity ended on 16 May 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 13 March 2012; opportunity ended on 12 May 2012
- W3C DOM4
- Call for exclusion sent on 07 October 2010; opportunity ended on 06 March 2011
- Call for exclusion sent on 06 January 2011; opportunity ended on 06 March 2011
- The From-Origin Header
- Call for exclusion sent on 12 September 2011; opportunity ended on 08 February 2012
- DOM Parsing and Serialization
- Call for exclusion sent on 20 September 2012; opportunity ended on 17 February 2013
- Call for exclusion sent on 10 December 2013; opportunity ended on 08 February 2014
- Call for exclusion sent on 01 May 2014; opportunity ended on 30 June 2014
- Java language binding for Web IDL
- Call for exclusion sent on 08 February 2012; opportunity ended on 06 July 2012
- Call for exclusion sent on 10 May 2012; opportunity ended on 06 July 2012
- Fullscreen
- Call for exclusion sent on 03 July 2012; opportunity ended on 30 November 2012
- Gamepad
- Call for exclusion sent on 29 May 2012; opportunity ended on 26 October 2012
- Input Method Editor API
- Call for exclusion sent on 24 May 2012; opportunity ended on 21 October 2012
- Pointer Lock
- Call for exclusion sent on 29 May 2012; opportunity ended on 26 October 2012
- Call for exclusion sent on 31 October 2013; opportunity ended on 30 December 2013
- Push API
- Call for exclusion sent on 18 October 2012; opportunity ended on 17 March 2013
- Call for exclusion sent on 17 January 2013; opportunity ended on 17 March 2013
- Quota Management API
- Call for exclusion sent on 03 July 2012; opportunity ended on 30 November 2012
- The Screen Orientation API
- Call for exclusion sent on 22 May 2012; opportunity ended on 19 October 2012
- Shadow DOM
- Call for exclusion sent on 22 May 2012; opportunity ended on 19 October 2012
- URL
- Call for exclusion sent on 24 May 2012; opportunity ended on 21 October 2012
- Web Intents
- Call for exclusion sent on 02 July 2012; opportunity ended on 23 November 2012
- Web Intents Addendum - Local Services
- Call for exclusion sent on 04 October 2012; opportunity ended on 03 March 2013
- Call for exclusion sent on 03 January 2013; opportunity ended on 03 March 2013
- Custom Elements
- Call for exclusion sent on 14 May 2013; opportunity ended on 11 October 2013
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 August 2013; opportunity ended on 11 October 2013
- Call for exclusion sent on 24 October 2013; opportunity ended on 23 December 2013
- HTML Imports
- Call for exclusion sent on 14 May 2013; opportunity ended on 11 October 2013
- HTML Templates
- Call for exclusion sent on 14 February 2013; opportunity ended on 14 July 2013
- Streams API
- Call for exclusion sent on 14 February 2013; opportunity ended on 14 July 2013
- UI Events
- Call for exclusion sent on 25 July 2013; opportunity ended on 22 December 2013
- Manifest for a web application
- Call for exclusion sent on 17 December 2013; opportunity ended on 16 May 2014
- Service Workers
- Call for exclusion sent on 13 May 2014; opportunity ended on 05 October 2014
- DOM Level 3 KeyboardEvent code Values
- Call for exclusion sent on 12 June 2014; opportunity ended on 09 November 2014
- Call for exclusion sent on 11 September 2014; opportunity ended on 09 November 2014
- DOM Level 3 KeyboardEvent key Values
- Call for exclusion sent on 12 June 2014; opportunity ended on 09 November 2014
- Selection API
- Call for exclusion sent on 07 October 2014; opportunity ended on 06 March 2015
Additional Licensing Information
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5 of the W3C Patent Policy:
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