Re: Amazon Patents Getting Numbers Off a Check

[Tim Jackson]

Lee Hollaar wrote on Sun, 25 Jul 2004 01:08:03 +0000 (UTC)....
> If you, instead, want to screw your competitors with somebody else's
> bad patent, then conspire with the to get a license from them in
> trade for you not disclosing the prior art.
 
A completely unjustified reading of what I said.

What's screwing my competitors is the bad patent.  There's no 
obligation on me to tell them that it's bad.  Failing to do so doesn't 
amount to me screwing them.

Neither did I suggest getting a licence in exchange for not disclosing 
the prior art.  The reason for sending the prior art to the patentee 
(as you yourself suggested) is to ensure that he will be dissuaded 
from suing me.

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