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Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, November 05 2012 @ 03:12 AM EST |
If you are making anything that may infringe on patents in the country where you
are making it, you need a licence. In the US, making a component of a patented
invention specifically for that invention is a form of infringement. That could
well be the case in lots of jurisdictions.
As for 'if "no chip can ever enact all the patent claims" why is this
case in court?' the issue is whether the complete imported device enacts all of
the claims.
I don't know, but importing chips that do not enact all the claims, but were
made specifically as a component of a US patented invention might also be
infringement under the law.
I don't think there is anything unreasonable in the laws: it is ethically wrong
to make a significant part of a patented invention without a licence just
because it is not the complete invention. The argument that it cannot infringe
all of the claims until it is built into the invention should not allow anyone
to make the largest part of the invention with impunity.
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Regards
Ian Al
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