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Standard advice to engineers: Don't read patents, you are exposing yourself to triple damages for knowing infringement. If you need a patent search done, get
by pacaro 11y ago
Standard advice to engineers:
Don't read patents, you are exposing yourself to triple damages for knowing infringement.
If you need a patent search done, get someone else to do it
- saganus 11y agoTriple damages? as in, if the opposing side can prove that you sometime read the patent in case, you get punished 3x because it's the same as willfully violating the patent? Wow.
- mmagin 11y agoI have actually been told by legal people at my employer that if it can be proven that anyone at the company has read a particular patent, this can occur. So, yeah, the system is rediculous. But no looking at any patents related to software for me, I guess.