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Intellectual Property Considerations
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[1999-02-26 IBM to Unicode Technical Committee]

Subject: Disclosure of IBM Technology - Unicode Normalization Forms

The attached document entitled "Unicode Normalization Forms" does not require
IBM technology, but may be implemented using IBM technology that has been filed
for US Patent. However, IBM believes that the technology could be beneficial to
the software community at large, especially with respect to usage on the
Internet, allowing the community to derive the enormous benefits provided by
Unicode.

This letter is to inform you that IBM is pleased to make the Unicode
normalization technology that has been filed for patent freely available to
anyone using them in implementing to the Unicode standard.

Sincerely,

W. J. Sullivan,
Acting Director of National Language Support and Information Development
