[Accessibility] A discussion on patents

[Robinson, Norman B - Washington, DC]

Per our teleconference, I am posting some relevant resources to consider
when drafting a policy statement regarding patents:

1. IEEE-Standars Association Standards Board Operations Manual
(http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sect1.html#standard)
2. Guidelines for Implementation of theANSI Patent Policy
(http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:NmrLuPKxXHAJ:www.niso.org/committe
es/OpenURL/PATPOL.pdf+ANSI+patents&hl=en&client=firefox-a)
3. The Future of Standards Setting
(http://www.standardsconference.org/article_3.htm)
4. W3C Patent Policy
(http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/)
5. FSF's Position on W3 Consortium "Royalty-Free" Patent Policy
(http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/w3c-patent.html)
6. http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/

and for a related article:

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/careers/careerstemplate.jsp?ArticleId=i1202
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