Template - Public Comment and IPR Review Notice

*DISTRIBUTION: Kantara Initiative Community (including Members, Participants, and Subscribers)

SUBJECT: PUBLIC COMMENTS AND IPR REVIEW NOTICE - FULL DOCUMENT TITLE

Dear Kantara Initiative Community:

This is a formal notification that the (FULL WORK GROUP NAME) has approved the following document as a (STAGE) and its distribution for public comment and IPR Review: 

Document: (FULL DOCUMENT TITLE)

Version: #.#

Document Date: YYYY-MM-DD

Document URL: (LINK)

In accordance with the Kantara Initiative Operating Procedures, this document now enters a 45-day public comment and IPR review period in preparation for an All-Member Ballot to consider its approval as a Kantara Initiative Recommendation.  This is an open invitation to comment. Kantara Initiative solicits feedback from potential users, developers and other interested parties, whether Kantara Initiative members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

Public Review and IPR Review Period Opens: YYYY-MM-DD, HH:MM PM ET

Review Period Closes: YYYY-MM-DD, HH:MMPM ET

Overview of Document/ABSTRACT:

INSERT FROM DOCUMENT

Kantara invites your review of this/these documents and asks that you submit any comments and proposed revisions on or before YYYY-MM-DD.  As this deadline will be strictly adhered to, late submissions will not be taken into account.

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Intellectual Property Rights Notice:

Intellectual Property Rights Notice: In accordance with the Kantara Initiative IPR Policy Appendix B Article 5 and the Kantara Initiative Operating Procedures Section 7.5, you have a period of 45 days to review the document for any Necessary Claims that may be implicated by the final (document/criteria/recommendation/technical specification/etc).

Note that any submissions are deemed to be contributed under the IPR Option of the WG: WG IPR POLICY (full name and linked).

While there is no requirement to review your patent portfolio for Necessary Claims, please be advised that unless you provide a licensing objection in accordance with the Kantara Initiative IPR Policy Article 5 or a notice of withdrawal in accordance with Kantara Initiative IPR Policy Article 6 on or before YYYY-MM-DD you will have committed to the licensing provisions as set forth by the Patent & Copyright: (WG IPR POLICY) IPR Policy with respect to any Necessary Claims implicated by the final approved document.

 <link to WG Roster> are required to make claims to IPR regarding these technical documents. Having signed the Group Participation Agreement (GPA) all members of the (WG ACRONYM) should be familiar with these documents, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved Kantara Initiative Recommendation.

Kantara Initiative invites any other persons who know of any part of this Group output that would infringe on third party intellectual property rights to disclose such infringement claims so that these claims may be provided to the Group members for resolution. If you are not a (WG ACRONYM) Participant, you have no IPR licensing obligation to any of these documents.

To submit an Intellectual Property Rights infringement claim, email staff@kantarainitiative.org  with the subject "WG ACRONYM IPR CLAIM".

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To Comment on the Recommendation:

1. Single comment: Public Comment Form (updated as needed)

2. Multiple comments:  Kantara-Comment-Template ANCR Transparency Performance Reporting Recommendation.xlsx

3. Send your comments via email to staff@ kantarainitiative.org with the subject “(WG ACRONYM) WG COMMENT SUBMISSION".

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Please contact the Kantara Initiative staff at staff@kantarainitiative.org with any questions regarding this notice.  

We thank you for your time and interest.

Best regards,