As part of the proposal to start a new OASIS TC, May 2002
ContentGuard will submit the eXtensible rights Markup Language™ (XrML™) Version 2.0 at the initial
meeting of the TC. ContentGuard has copyrights to the XrML 2.0 specification and schema (including previous
releases) along with a trademark on the name "XrML". ContentGuard also owns US Patents 5,638,443, 5,634,012,
5,715,403, and 5,629,980 which have claims that may necessarily be infringed by the use of the contribution.
ContentGuard will grant OASIS permission to use the trademark "XrML" for the use of the TC and associated promotion
and marketing. ContentGuard's contribution will be submitted with the following intellectual property rights
statement: "ContentGuard agrees to offer a license, on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms, to use any patent
claim of US Patents 5,638,443, 5,634,012, 5,715,403, and 5,629,980 and which is necessarily infringed by the use of
the contribution.
ContentGuard OASIS RL TC Intellectual Property Disclosure May 21, 2002.
At this time ContentGuard believes its US Patents 5,638,443, 5,634,012, 5,715,403, and 5,629,980 have claims
that may necessarily be infringed by the use of a rights expression language, such as the rights expression
language being promulgated by the RL TC, to implement digital rights management technologies.
ContentGuard agrees to offer a license, on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms, to use any patent claim of US
Patents 5,638,443, 5,634,012, 5,715,403, and 5,629,980 which are necessarily infringed by the use of the rights
expression language being promulgated by the RL TC.