On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:25:11PM +0200, Pete Resnick wrote:
> On 7/30/09 at 3:03 PM +0100, Samuel Weiler wrote:
>
> >What harms would come from destroying those old records and/or not
> >collecting such details in the future? And how widespread is the
> >support for destroying them?
>
> Repeating something I just mentioned to Sam in the hallway (and
> IANAL, even though I teach some of this stuff to engineers):
>
> There is some case law that says that if you participate (even
> passively) in a standards body in which patent disclosure is
> required, and you choose not to disclose your patents, you may lose
> your rights to assert the patents. Having a blue sheet with someone's
> name on it may be sufficient for a court to find that the person
> can't assert. I think that makes the blue sheets worth keeping.
>
> pr
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you then have the burden of proof to show that you
were not there, when I have signed you name to the blue
sheet.
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--bill
Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).
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