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IBM Published Patent Application Disclosure and Licensing Statement Regarding the OASIS
Web Server for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Version 1 Specification
IBM submits this Statement to the Web Services for Remote Portals Technical Committee of
Oasis dated January 29, 2003 for the WSRP Version 1 Specification (hereafter
"Specification").
IBM, as a Web Services for Remote Portals Technical Committee participant, supports the
intellectual property rights disclosure policy in the OASIS Policy on Intellectual Property
Rights.
IBM patent and patent application disclosures are based upon the working knowledge of
those individuals involved with the respective Technical Committee and do not represent the
results of an IBM patent portfolio search.
IBM believes the following published patent applications may, at this time, contain one or
more claims which, if issued, may be Essential Claims with respect to the Specification.
Boehme et al. "Distributing Information in a Markup Language Within a Computer System."
Pub. No. US 2002/0116511, August 22, 2002.
Schaeck et al. "System and Method for Dynamically Integrating Remote Portlets Into
Portals." Pub. No. US 2002/0169852, November 14, 2002.
IBM will, upon written request, provide a nonexclusive, royalty free patent license, with
other reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms and conditions, for those patents issued to IBM
which contain claims essential, in IBM's judgment, to implementations of the Specification
and for which IBM is able to provide patent licenses (including patents issuing on the
published patent applications disclosed above), for implementing the Specification. This
patent license is available to all entities. If a party requesting a patent license also has
claims essential to the implementation of the Specification (hereafter "Requestor Claims"),
IBM will grant this patent license only if the recipient, in return, will grant IBM a
reciprocal license, with substantially identical terms and conditions, under the Requestor's
Claims. If a party has a license with respect to IBM Essential Claims and acquires, by any
means, one or more Requestor Claims and refuses to grant IBM a reciprocal license (with
substantially identical terms and conditions) under such Requestor Claims, IBM may suspend or
revoke the license IBM granted to such party.
Any party wishing to request an IBM patent license, in support of the OASIS WSRP Version 1
specification should write to:
IBM Director of Intellectual Property & Licensing
IBM Corporation
North Castle Drive, Armonk, N.Y., 10504
Or fax to:
IBM Director of Intellectual Property & Licensing
(914) 765-4420
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