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you can lose the patent if you refuse to license or use it (?)

you can lose the patent if you refuse to license or use it (?)

Posted Sep 5, 2002 16:22 UTC (Thu) by bluetea (guest, #1108)
In reply to: you can lose the patent if you refuse to license or use it (?) by stevenj
Parent article: A different use of software patents

I don't know if that's true or not, but it seems that even if it is you could always come up with licensing terms that make it unattractive without flatly refusing to license it.


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you can lose the patent if you refuse to license or use it (?)

Posted Sep 6, 2002 1:03 UTC (Fri) by edgewood (subscriber, #1123) [Link]

For example, he could require that all code that uses his patent be licensed under the GPL. <grin>

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