Re: Evil Designers Guide to Copying Patents

In article <56j3b6F28morkU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
dirk.bruere@xxxxxxxxx says...
John Fields wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:30:57 +0000, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax
<dirk.bruere@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



The judge is the one who can throw it out of court before a jury is even
called.
The point being, everything not explicitly forbidden is permissible.

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But, you seem to forget that patent infringement and copyright
violation _are_ explicitly forbidden. By law.

You well know it's not as simple as that.
All copyrights and patents get you is entry to the court, providing you
have enough money.

Copyright infringement can be a criminal violation is some cases.
The US code includes both.

And, more importantly, by ethics, since what isn't yours isn't yours
to use as you see fit.

There's no such thing in business.

Certainly there is, just as there is in personal life.

The rules are written down and interpreted by the courts.
That's the beginning and end of it.

Law <> ethics. One hopes there is some commonality though.

I don't understand why that's such a difficult concept to come to
terms with, since if someone took something of yours that was
valuable, without your permission, and sold it for their own gain
without even giving you credit for it, I'd expect that you'd be
unhappy with that.

Wouldn't you be?

Yes.
So?

--
Keith
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