Re: Evil Designers Guide to Copying Patents


"D from BC" <myrealaddress@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm going to tick off some patent owners. :P

Just Keep It Simple and Stupid:

Set up two businesses. A holding company and a subsidiary. The subsidiary rips
the patent, manufactures and sell the goods produced. But that is not all it
does.

It also pays high interest on the junk bonds it issued to the holding company
and "private investors" financing the startup - probably close to what the
accountant knows will piss off the tax authorities for certain. It never really
makes any profit.

When the lawsuit comes, the subsidiary cannot pay and goes tits-up. With luck
the executers will burn whatever assets remain, nobody gets anything for their
trouble and an example has been made.


1) Patent owners are not god and see everything everywhere.
Play the odds...There's a good chance of never being discovered.
2) Some copied tech can be epoxy encapsulated. Is a patent owner
going to spend days picking away at epoxy to see if it's a copy?
Maybe filing off chip numbers will help.
3) Deny copying the patent.. I didn't make that! :)
Be a non-existent, unregistered, unlicensed company.
4) Find out if the patent owner is poor.. Most likely the person is
too broke for a patent legal battle.
5) Avoid mass production of the copied patent.
6) Have the copied patent made overseas. Have it disguised as another
product when it's imported.
7) Maybe improve or degrade the patent so that's it's different.
8) Don't release schematics. Maybe have fake schematics too.
9) If you're not making much money on the copied patent.. You think
you'll get sued over a few hundred dollars of profit?
10) Go ahead copy away..When discovered, perhaps make a deal with the
patent owner for licensing and paying back royalties.. There might be
enough profit to go around.
If the patent owner is greedy, then layoff everybody, liquidate the
company and start all over again by copying somebody else's patent.
11) Have you heard of any stories of people going to jail for patent
infringement?
12) Get ready to mass produce the patent just before the patent
expires.
D from BC


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