Re: Evil Designers Guide to Copying Patents

jasen wrote:

On 2007-03-22, Paul Hovnanian P.E. <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
D from BC wrote:

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:54:33 -0700, "Paul Hovnanian P.E."
<paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Do it in software. Contract the code work out to an offshore s/w house.
Don't release the source. If the potential patent/copyright owner
suspects something, you are protected against their reverse engineering
it by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (particularly if you have
incorporated minimal DRM into the product).

I wonder how often that happens..

It happens.

Another place that patents are vulnerable is covering processes or
algorithms. If the delivered article doesn't actually contain the code
(object or source), how would an examination reveal an infringement?

A hypothetical example: If someone were to duplicate Google's search
algorithms, but move their servers to a jurisdiction which doesn't honor
US subpoenas, how could Google ever establish that the competitor had
infringed rather than come up with a unique algorithm of their own? The
delivered product contains no direct evidence of the process used to
generate it.

how does a college examiner detect copied answers.

Catch somebody peeking at their neighbor's paper.

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