Tracy Reed wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:34:31PM -0700, Darren New spake thusly: >> Sure. But once it gets to court, you're going to have a sympathetic jury. > > You're also gonna be broke. > >> Then do the patent searches. You need to do that with hardware or >> anything else, also. > > Another way to go broke. My understanding is that many places believe > that you shouldn't do patent searches at all when developing a new > technology because if it can be shown that you did it can be shown > that you should have been aware of the patent and now you are > willfully infringing so damages go way up. And with people patenting > one-click and other nonsense you really can't do much of anything > without violating some sort of overly broad patent.
A couple of relevant news articles found on lwn: Court Greatly Limits Software And Business Method Patents from the huge-victory-for-innovation dept http://techdirt.com/articles/20081030/1117172691.shtml EU patent board to decide whether to allow software patents By Ryan Paul | Published: October 30, 2008 - 06:05AM CT http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081030-eu-patent-board-to-decide-whether-to-allow-software-patents.html Regards. ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
