umm, when did FUD become all-encompassing?

> And i don't mean by "xy did a patent survey and didn't find
> anything" but by "xy did a patent survey, scanned patents based on these
> and that criteria and closely looked at those patents". Anything else is 
> just FUD.

I have a hard time seeing how "xy did a patent survey and didn't find anything" can be
considered FUD.  It sounds like it is insufficiently rigorous for your taste, but it is hardly
spreading "fear, uncertainty, and doubt".  It may well be that there was either no patent
survey done or it was done in a cursory fashion, I don't know, but characterizing it as FUD
is, at best, counterproductive.

FUD is not (as far as I know) another name for "incorrect" or "insufficiently rigorous", which
is what seems to be implied here.

jake