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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] patents...
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 20:49:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP0T1SMoVPLS6PgbN04S9gdfqAzF4+8mMG5Njifa8v=w6w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgRhEJUT4JEXtZSqnNnBV=tLFD4qjLFOQpeA-V2jA_UtHg@mail.gmail.com>

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>
> Avoiding willfull infringement no longer requires paying off a
> patent attorney to get a freedom to operate review.  This isn't to say
> that reading patents is always productive


That case raised the bar a bit, but the core problem remains - if you learn
about a patent you definitely violate (and there is very likely to be at
least one and possibly many), via whatever means, then by continuing
business you become a wilful violator. Which makes sense: how could it be
any other way?

It still never makes sense to read patents. You can only lose.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-19 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-17 15:31 [Bitcoin-development] Paper Currency Jerry Felix
2014-05-17 15:45 ` Matt Whitlock
2014-05-17 16:07 ` Chris Pacia
2014-05-17 16:40   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-18 11:47     ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-18 12:14       ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-18 12:51         ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 13:06           ` Brooks Boyd
2014-05-19 13:50             ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-18 13:50       ` Natanael
2014-05-18 18:47         ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-18 20:10           ` Natanael
2014-05-19 10:26             ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 12:55       ` Sergio Lerner
2014-05-19 13:34         ` Martin Sip
2014-05-19 13:53         ` Alex Kotenko
2014-05-19 14:47         ` [Bitcoin-development] patents Adam Back
2014-05-19 15:09           ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-19 18:27             ` Peter Todd
2014-05-19 18:40               ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-19 18:43             ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-19 18:46               ` Peter Todd
2014-05-19 18:49               ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2014-05-19 22:15             ` Bernd Jendrissek
2014-05-20 10:30           ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-18 13:50 ` [Bitcoin-development] Paper Currency Andreas Schildbach
2014-05-19 12:21 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-19 18:20   ` Justus Ranvier
2014-05-19 18:39     ` Peter Todd

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