Re: [OAUTH-WG] IPR on OAuth bearer

3) I have read the IPR and I believe I could deploy this specification.

NOTE: I am not a legal expert, but I do have extensive experience with identity related patents and after reviewing the claims, I do not believe that the OAuth 2.0 or OAuth bearer specifications infringe on patent 7272639.

-- Dick

On May 9, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Sam Hartman wrote:

> So, here are statements that  you could make as part of this discussion
> that would be entirely in scope:
> 
> 1) I've read the IPR. Prior to this disclosure I was interested in
> developing|deploying|shipping  an implementation of this
> specification. Now I am not.
> 
> 2) I think you could go so far as to say. Based on this IPR I would no
> longer feel comfortable making an open-source implementation of this
> spec available.
> 
> 3) Or on the other  side: I've reviewed this new IPR and I believe I
> could implement|ship|deploy|whatever this specification.
> 
> Or if you don't like giving out as much information as 1-3:
> 
> 4) I've reviewed the new IPr and I recommend that we not advance this
> standard
> 
> 5) I've reviewed the IPR and I do recommend we advance.
> 
> Obviously, people may weigh statements of the form 1-3 with more value
> than 4-5. However it's really hard to get many organizations to say
> something in the 1-3 range.
> 
> Other valid things to say in such a context include:
> 
> 6) We've successfully obtained any licenses we believe that we need in
> order to implement this specification given the IPR.
> 
> 7) We attempted to obtain the licenses we needed in order to implement
> given this IPR but were unsuccessful.
> 
> believe all the above statements are acceptable. In particular, none of
> them comment on the validity of the IPR nor give legal advice about
> stuff.
> 
> I believe you could even go so far as to say  something like I believe
> that an open-source implementation of this technology is|is not
> important to whether we should standardize it. I believe we've come very
> close to that in the past. 
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