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IPR Details
Google Inc.'s Statement about IPR related to draft-alakuijala-brotli-01

Submitted: July 29, 2014 under the rules in RFC 3979 as updated by RFC 4879.

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I. Patent Holder/Applicant ("Patent Holder")

Holder legal name Google Inc.

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application

Holder contact name Scott K Peterson
Holder contact email standards-licensing@google.com
Holder contact info

Patent Counsel
Legal

III. Contact Information for the IETF Participant Whose Personal Belief Triggered this Disclosure

Name Jyrki Alakuijala
Email jyrki@google.com
Other info

IV. IETF Document or Other Contribution to Which this IPR Disclosure Relates

Internet-Draft:
draft-alakuijala-brotli ("Brotli Compressed Data Format")
Revisions:
01

V. Disclosure of Patent Information
i.e., patents or patent applications required to be disclosed by RFC 3979 as updated by RFC 4879

A. For granted patents or published pending patent applications, please provide the following information:

Patent, Serial, Publication, Registration, or Application/File number(s)

n/a
Date: n/a
Country: n/a

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?:

Has patent pending No

VI. Licensing Declaration

The Patent Holder states that its position with respect to licensing any patent claims contained in the patent(s) or patent application(s) disclosed above that would necessarily be infringed by implementation of the technology required by the relevant IETF specification ("Necessary Patent Claims"), for the purpose of implementing such specification, is as follows(select one licensing declaration option only):

Licensing Royalty-Free, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory License to All Implementers
Licensing information, comments, notes, or URL for further information

Because of the relation of the Brotli Compression Algorithm (described in the above-identified IETF document) to the work of the W3C WebFonts Working Group, Google Inc. has published a patent statement for “Additional licensing information for the WebFonts Working Group specifications” relating to Brotli. Because the statement relates to an IETF document and because both the algorithm and statement have broader applicability than to fonts, that statement is noted here.
See the statement at: <http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/44556/show-license#x35662>
For convenience of reference, the statement is reproduced here:
“Google is participating in the WebFonts Working Group and has thereby made the W3C Patent Policy RF commitment that flows from that participation. However, in section 8.2 of the W3C Patent Policy, claims relating to referenced material are excluded from the RF commitment: “the implementation of technology developed elsewhere and merely incorporated by reference in the body of the Recommendation”. It is anticipated that a Recommendation may issue from the WebFonts Working Group that, like the specification here <http://www.w3.org/TR/WOFF2/>, includes a normative reference to a compression algorithm known as the Brotli Compression Algorithm, for which a version of the specification is here: <http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-alakuijala-brotli-01.txt>. To negate the effect of that exclusion for the Brotli Compression Algorithm in work being done in the WebFonts Working Group, Google hereby extends its RF commitment for the WebFonts Working Group in which it is participating as follows: if and when a Recommendation is published from that working group that includes a normative reference to the Brotli Compression Algorithm, Google’s RF commitment extends as if the text of that referenced specification of the Brotli Compression Algorithm had been directly included in the text of the W3C Recommendation. In addition, to facilitate the use of the Brotli Compression Algorithm in other applications, Google hereby provides a W3C RF commitment (that is not limited to font data) to the Brotli Compression Algorithm specification linked above and, if that specification leads to a final IETF RFC for Brotli, then to the specification in that RFC.”

Note: The individual submitting this template represents and warrants that he or she is authorized by the Patent Holder to agree to the above-selected licensing declaration.

VII. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name Scott K Peterson
Submitter email standards-licensing@google.com

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