Re: how can patents affect linux?
From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 08/16/04
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Date: 16 Aug 2004 17:53:19 GMT
"Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
]In <cf0u58$eah$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca>, on 08/06/2004
] at 09:45 PM, unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) said:
]>??? He is perfectly correct. Yes, you could be sued if you infringed
]>a patent by using it.
]You could also be sued if you didn't infringe on it, especially in the
]US. Companies have settled on patently fraudulent claims simply to
]avoid the expense of fighting them in court.
Agreed. Someone needs no factual basis on which to sue you. They might need
it to win, but not to sue. I was assuming the whole phrase. "You could be
sued with a strong chance of them winning" when I said "You could could be
sued". Muggings do not need dark alleys to take place.
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