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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 04:27 PM EDT |
"However - the issue isn't "some forms of legitamit use of a
product" vs "some forms of an illegitamit" use of a product. The
underlying issue to the patent problem is that:
once you start patenting "using the product as intended" - like
has been done with software - all uses of that product for what it was intended
become subject to being illegitamit
And that's just plain wrong. On both the current Patent Law front (as I
understand it) and ethical/moral front."
I agree the analogy is flawed because there can be non copyright infringing uses
of a copier. However, letting someone use a device or an ap that only performs
an infringing process of someone patented process is similar in effect to
allowing people to make copies of Harry Potter on a copier if we assume for the
sake of argument that the only function of a copier is to copy books.
There can be instances where the claims to the patent don't cover a device.
They can only cover the method. While the device manufacture can be sued for
"contributory infringement" the actual infringer, the one performing
the patented process, is the end user.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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