> Every patent that relies on another patent lists what those are. For this very reason. That’s not the reason for the list of references in a patent. The reas

> Every patent that relies on another patent lists what those are. For this very reason. That’s not the reason for the list of references in a patent. The reason for the list is to identify relevant prior inventions that may be useful to understanding the invention as well as references that the examiner considered during prosecution. The references don’t mean that the patent would infringe those prior inventions.