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copyrights .neq. patents

copyrights .neq. patents

Posted Sep 23, 2006 7:15 UTC (Sat) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624)
In reply to: copyrights .neq. patents by sepreece
Parent article: Another GPL win in Germany

If the starting date is when you discover the infringement, how do you prove what that date was?

I presume that would be from the date that you served notice on them of the infringement.


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copyrights .neq. patents

Posted Sep 23, 2006 18:25 UTC (Sat) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]

Wouldn't that leave the same opportunity to let the damages build up before serving notice?

copyrights .neq. patents

Posted Sep 24, 2006 12:33 UTC (Sun) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]

Good point - I need more sleep.. :-)

copyrights .neq. patents

Posted Sep 24, 2006 16:35 UTC (Sun) by jhardin (guest, #3297) [Link]

Only for thirty days. So you can discover infringement and let it sit for a year, but you'll only be able to claim 30 days' damages, and that only by lying to the court about when you discovered the infringement. Do you *really* want to do *that*?

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