On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:23 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > Bernd Petrovitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > I don't know about others but I wouldn't write an offer with a fixed > > price for "look into assembler dumps, reverse engineer it and find an > > infringement on a list of given patents" so the patent holder has to > > list the patents and the amount of my time to invest (and then he will > > get a price for it and no guarantees of success). > > And them you'd have to testify (as an expert witness, AFAIU). Having
Probably if -) I actually found something and -) the patent holder also believes in it (and he will - IMHO very probably - pay another expert to verify the findings) and -) the patent holder actually persues the infringements and -) the law suit goes that far and. > legally demostrable expertise in the area isn't easy, I suppose. At least in .at you need some kind of "official approval" to become an "expert in court" (in German: "Gutachter" - Is "assessor" the correct translation? http://dict.leo.org/ lists 9 different words). Actually this is a somewhat different job .... Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/