IANAL, and neither is Wikipedia, but Wikipedia says this: > More specifically, an infringement may occur where the defendant has made, used, sold, offered to s

IANAL, and neither is Wikipedia, but Wikipedia says this: > More specifically, an infringement may occur where the defendant has made, used, sold, offered to sell, or imported an infringing invention or its equivalent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_infringement_under_United_States_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_infringement_under_Unite... It looks like doing anything of the sort would infringe, theoretically.