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At 12:07 PM 10/5/2001 -0700, Jim Ancona wrote: >--- Ann Navarro <ann@w...> wrote: > > At 08:53 AM 10/5/2001 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: > > > > >Draconian, sure. But it does the right thing by shifting the burden from > > >everyone else in the world to find out that concept Y has been patented > > >to the holder of the patent to _make known_ that they hold a patent on Y. ><snip/> > > Draconian contract wording looks good, but violations are likely to be > > commonplace despite it. > >But with Benjamin's wording, that wouldn't matter. If the company >inadvertently >fails to disclose, fine, they just granted the world a free license to use the >patent to implement the recommendation. And the first time someone tries to claim an "instant free license", watch the law suits fly -- nothing is that simple. Ann Ann Navarro, WebGeek Inc. http://www.webgeek.com/ What's on my mind? http://www.snorf.net/blog/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hooya waling waling wi tiyil!
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