Thank you for the clear response - was hoping to elicit such an expert :). That all makes sense. I’m most interested in #3, as I obviously wouldn’t want to make

Thank you for the clear response - was hoping to elicit such an expert :). That all makes sense. I’m most interested in #3, as I obviously wouldn’t want to make them liable or connected to the patent in any meaningful way… will have to look into that. The hope is/was that, since this is a cheap patent taken out by a non-profit micro enterprise, the stakes are low; if it eventually gets infringed it wouldn’t be the end of the world. So in that context, I wasn’t expecting any serious liability passing to them. Also if anyone has resources for #2 I’d love to hear them :). I guess this is a huge field on its own now (I think IBM invested w/ Watson in legal research?), but I’m definitely going to try to find public datasets anyway. Or blogs, guidebooks, textbooks, etc… …something tells me the question “which patents are good” might be take a while to answer comprehensively! Better start soon, I guess.