[time-nuts] patents and hobbyist projects

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun May 15 12:18:30 EDT 2016


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In message <b94f51f5-8498-1710-56b7-b1dd0e062845 at earthlink.net>, jimlux writes:
>On 5/15/16 1:12 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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>> In message <jh7fjbpcfb612319v9cq8u0blrus9ecco4 at 4ax.com>, David writes:
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>>> Commercial use also includes using the patent in production in some
>>> way outside of selling an item which uses the patent.
>>
>> The Supreme Court recently limited that significantly, buy reiterating
>> that you had to perform _all_ steps of a patent to infringe it:
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>> 	http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-786_664d.pdf
>>
>Bear in mind that not all the steps have to be performed by one entity 
>for infringement to exist.

Did you read the opinion ?

I'm asking because it pretty much says the exact opposite...

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