On 30 Jul 2008, at 19:36, Robert Renling wrote:
There's nothing hindering us to do a workalike, accepting it proper and then removing it if we're approached by legal representatives.
That would have been a not unreasonable approach, had somebody just gone ahead and done it...
However, AIUI (and IANAL), discussing the very possibility of a patent infringement has already changed the game, should that approach ever happen: there's now "evidence" that somebody thought there might be an infringement. That potentially means a whole bigger lawsuit than unwittingly infringing a patent...
Really, it's probably wisest never to discuss the existence or otherwise of patents at all, and if you have to, make sure there's a lawyer present :)
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