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An afternoon among the patent lawyers

An afternoon among the patent lawyers

Posted Mar 26, 2009 4:38 UTC (Thu) by cpeterso (guest, #305)
In reply to: An afternoon among the patent lawyers by boog
Parent article: An afternoon among the patent lawyers

in the case of software, not only does nobody ever read patents, I doubt very much anyone could extract any useful programming information from one even if they tried.
My employer's legal department urges software developers not to read patents. Patent owners can sue for bigger damages if they can show that the violator had read the patent, thus having "knowingly" infringed.


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