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{ Daily Archives } Saturday, July 2007

OpenXML and patents - Part 1

What happens if one vendor has Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) relating to a draft standard? How does that impact on the standards process? Should a standard be approved if compliance would require a licence from the vendor?
In the case of ISO/IEC there is an agreed Common Patent Policy which requires that the patent holder of […]

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So how did BSI vote?

The short answer is that it has not voted yet and the decision on how it will vote has not yet been made.
The proceedings of BSI committees are confidential. Since I was a member of the ad hoc technical committee on OpenXML, and was allowed to attend the meetings of that committee and (as an […]

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