Participation
- W3C Member Organizations
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- Adobe Systems Inc. (1 representative)
- Clinical and Biomedical Computing Ltd (1 representative)
- Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenieurs Rabat (EMI) (1 representative)
- EMC Corporation (2 representatives)
- GREATLINKUP LLC (1 representative)
- IBM Corporation (2 representatives)
- INNOVIMAX (1 representative)
- Library of Congress (1 representative)
- MarkLogic (2 representatives)
- Oracle Corporation (3 representatives)
- Invited Experts
- O'Neil Delpratt
- Michael Dyck
- Christian Gruen
- Michael Kay
- Jirka Kosek
- Adam Retter
- Team members
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 24 July 2013; see the Patent Policy FAQ for information about continued participation before re-joining the group.
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 XML Query 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 XML Query 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
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 XML Query Working Group should use the XML Query 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 XML Query 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 XML Query 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
- XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (Second Edition)
- Call for exclusion sent on 27 August 2004; opportunity ended on 24 November 2004
- Call for exclusion sent on 05 April 2005; opportunity ended on 03 June 2005
- XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (Second Edition)
- Call for exclusion sent on 26 August 2004; opportunity ended on 24 November 2004
- Call for exclusion sent on 05 April 2005; opportunity ended on 03 June 2005
- XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators (Second Edition)
- Call for exclusion sent on 26 August 2004; opportunity ended on 24 November 2004
- Call for exclusion sent on 05 April 2005; opportunity ended on 03 June 2005
- XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX) (Second Edition)
- Call for exclusion sent on 26 August 2004; opportunity ended on 24 November 2004
- Call for exclusion sent on 05 April 2005; opportunity ended on 03 June 2005
- XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM) (Second Edition)
- Call for exclusion sent on 26 August 2004; opportunity ended on 24 November 2004
- Call for exclusion sent on 05 April 2005; opportunity ended on 03 June 2005
- XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics (Second Edition)
- Call for exclusion sent on 26 August 2004; opportunity ended on 24 November 2004
- Call for exclusion sent on 04 June 2005; opportunity ended on 02 August 2005
- XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization (Second Edition)
- Call for exclusion sent on 26 August 2004; opportunity ended on 24 November 2004
- Call for exclusion sent on 05 April 2005; opportunity ended on 03 June 2005
- XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0
- Call for exclusion sent on 26 August 2004; opportunity ended on 06 December 2004
- Call for exclusion sent on 12 October 2004; opportunity ended on 06 December 2004
- Call for exclusion sent on 22 May 2007; opportunity ended on 16 July 2007
- XQuery Scripting Extension 1.0 Requirements
- Call for exclusion sent on 26 March 2007; opportunity ended on 20 August 2007
- XQuery Update Facility 1.0
- Call for exclusion sent on 27 April 2006; opportunity ended on 26 June 2006
- Call for exclusion sent on 29 August 2007; opportunity ended on 27 October 2007
- XML Path Language (XPath) 3.0
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 December 2009; opportunity ended on 14 May 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 March 2010; opportunity ended on 14 May 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 December 2011; opportunity ended on 11 February 2012
- XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.0
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 December 2009; opportunity ended on 14 May 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 March 2010; opportunity ended on 14 May 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 December 2011; opportunity ended on 11 February 2012
- XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.0
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 December 2009; opportunity ended on 14 May 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 March 2010; opportunity ended on 14 May 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 December 2011; opportunity ended on 11 February 2012
- XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language
- Call for exclusion sent on 22 July 2008; opportunity ended on 08 December 2008
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 December 2011; opportunity ended on 11 February 2012
- Call for exclusion sent on 24 July 2013; opportunity ended on 21 September 2013
- XQueryX 3.0
- Call for exclusion sent on 04 May 2009; opportunity ended on 30 September 2009
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 December 2011; opportunity ended on 11 February 2012
- Call for exclusion sent on 01 October 2013; opportunity ended on 30 November 2013
- XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.0
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 December 2009; opportunity ended on 14 May 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 March 2010; opportunity ended on 14 May 2010
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 December 2011; opportunity ended on 11 February 2012
- Call for exclusion sent on 09 January 2013; opportunity ended on 09 March 2013
- XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 December 2011; opportunity ended on 11 May 2012
- Call for exclusion sent on 18 September 2014; opportunity ended on 17 November 2014
- XQuery Update Facility 3.0
- Call for exclusion sent on 15 December 2011; opportunity ended on 11 May 2012
- XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0 Requirements and Use Cases
- Call for exclusion sent on 27 March 2012; opportunity ended on 24 August 2012
- XQuery Update Facility 3.0 Requirements and Use Cases
- Call for exclusion sent on 27 March 2012; opportunity ended on 24 August 2012
- XQueryX 3.1
- Call for exclusion sent on 01 May 2014; opportunity ended on 21 September 2014
- Call for exclusion sent on 31 July 2014; opportunity ended on 21 September 2014
- Call for exclusion sent on 10 October 2014; opportunity ended on 06 December 2014
- XQuery 3.1: An XML Query Language
- Call for exclusion sent on 01 May 2014; opportunity ended on 21 September 2014
- Call for exclusion sent on 31 July 2014; opportunity ended on 21 September 2014
- Call for exclusion sent on 10 October 2014; opportunity ended on 06 December 2014
- XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.1
- Call for exclusion sent on 01 May 2014; opportunity ended on 21 September 2014
- Call for exclusion sent on 10 October 2014; opportunity ended on 06 December 2014
- XML Path Language (XPath) 3.1
- Call for exclusion sent on 01 May 2014; opportunity ended on 21 September 2014
- Call for exclusion sent on 10 October 2014; opportunity ended on 06 December 2014
- XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.1
- Call for exclusion sent on 01 May 2014; opportunity ended on 21 September 2014
- Call for exclusion sent on 10 October 2014; opportunity ended on 06 December 2014
- XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.1
- Call for exclusion sent on 01 May 2014; opportunity ended on 21 September 2014
- Call for exclusion sent on 10 October 2014; opportunity ended on 06 December 2014
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 additional licensing information for documents produced by this Working Group
- 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).