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You might be interested in Microsoft v. AT&T (Supreme Court, 2007) | 179 comments | Create New Account
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Thank you for that contribution
Authored by: PolR on Sunday, March 17 2013 @ 10:41 AM EDT
This depends on how the claims are written. You have to practice all the
elements of the claim to infringe. This implies we must look at what is in the
claim to know what is infringing. We can't reason on the basis of how the
technology work alone. We have to check what is written in the claim because the
choice of the words makes a difference.

You can infringe on a patent without using the invention. Making, selling and
importing patented invention are also infringing activities. So depending on how
the claim is written the vendor who installs the software and the shop that
sells it to you may be infringers.

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You might be interested in Microsoft v. AT&T (Supreme Court, 2007)
Authored by: macliam on Sunday, March 17 2013 @ 08:06 PM EDT

Apparently method claims are infringed by the end-user. This was mentioned in the congressional hearing on abusive patent litigation that is the subject of the next Groklaw thread. (There was a discussion as to whether the supplier could be sued in place of the end user, and I seem to remember a remark that this is not possible in the case of method claims.) Maybe the software supplier is guilty of "contributory infringement"?

With regard to copying the software abroad, see Microsoft v. AT&T, discussed here on Wikipedia.

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