BEA IP Disclosure

["Yaron Y. Goland" <ygoland@bea.com>]

Title:

BEA Disclosure Statement for the

BPEL4WS V1.1 Submission

to the OASIS BPEL TC

 

BEA, as an OASIS BPEL specification development participant, supports a full disclosure policy for essential published patent applications and issued patents, and an acknowledgement policy for potentially essential unpublished patent applications.

 

BEA intellectual property disclosures are based upon the working knowledge of those individuals involved with the respective Technical Committee and do not represent the results of a BEA patent portfolio search.

 

No Existing Patents

 

To the best of BEA's knowledge, BEA has no patent rights in the technology described in "Business Process Execution Language for Web Services Version 1.1 specification dated 5/5/2003" (the "Document"). 

 

Licensing

 

If subsequent to the date of this statement, any such patent rights are found to exist or otherwise come into being, BEA will provide a nonexclusive, royalty free patent license, with other reasonable terms and conditions for patents issued to BEA which contain claims essential to implementations of the OASIS BPEL specifications, and for which BEA is able to provide patent licenses (including patents issuing on the published and unpublished patent applications disclosed above), for implementing the OASIS BPEL specification. Should those requesting a patent license also have essential claims to the OASIS BPEL specifications, BEA will grant the patent license provided that the recipient, in return, will grant BEA a reciprocal license to their essential claim(s).

 

Disclaimer

 

BEA'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DOCUMENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. BEA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. BEA SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE DOCUMENT, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF BEA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES IN ADVANCE.