[wss] Web Services Security IPR Disclosure

Title: Message

As called for, this note is to advise OASIS that 
Microsoft believes it has pending patent application(s) that include claims that 
are necessary to implement the Web Services Security contribution submitted on 
June 26, 2002, to the WS-Security Technical Committee (“Contribution”).  
Microsoft will update this statement if and when such pending patent 
application(s) issue.  

 

Microsoft is willing to provide licenses to 
interested parties to any Necessary Claims (as defined in the WS-Security license at http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/docs/wss_license.asp) 
as follows:

 

If an OASIS Standard incorporating this 
Contribution is adopted by OASIS pursuant to the WS-Security Technical Committee 
Charter at the time the Contribution was submitted, Microsoft will grant, for 
the limited purposes of implementing and complying with the required portions of 
the resulting OASIS Standard, a ROYALTY-FREE, worldwide, non-sublicenseable, 
non-transferable, license to any such Necessary Claims to implement the 
Contribution under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions, 
provided a reciprocal patent license is granted to Microsoft and other 
implementers of the OASIS Standard.

 

I am not a lawyer so direct any questions regarding 
this communication to:

 

Microsoft Standards Group
c/o Dawna 
Hoerle
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 
98052

Thanks,

-John