What are the primary differences between the Current Patent Practice Note and the W3C Patent Policy?
The primary difference between the “Current Patent Practice Note” (CPP) and the W3C Patent Policy is that the former did not include a licensing obligation and the latter does. The Current Patent Practice Note set expectations that Working Group deliverables should be available for implementation royalty-free, but did not include any licensing requirements on Working Group Participants. The W3C Patent Policy does include licensing requirements. Other new provisions of the W3C Patent Policy also relate to this change, including exclusion handling (section 4), licensing requirements (section 5), and a lighter-weight disclosure model (section 6). In addition, the W3C Patent Policy includes improvements to the exception handling process (section 7) and some definitions (section 8) based on the experience with the Current Patent Practice Note.
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