Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Dec 1998 04:47:09 +0000 (GMT) | From | (Michael Shields) | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux |
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> You don't have to take my word for it. Go to > http://www.law.cornelle.edu and go to US Code 35, PART III, CHAPTER > 29, "Remedies". You will find that paragraph 286 is the only one in > which non-enforcement affects your ability to get remedies for patent > infringement, and furthermore, it only affects THAT PARTICULAR > INFRINGEMENT -- i.e., it doesn't affect any other infringement. The time > limit, BTW, is six years (if you violate the patent for six years and > they don't sue you, they can't sue you anymore).
Thanks, I am wrong. It's good to have a cite for the source material. -- Shields.
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