Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>>> Only if the end user writes the software to decode the video, is the end
>>> user doing any patent infringment.
> 
>> Not in the US. A patent covers using the invention as well as building it.
> 
>   I'm not a patent lawyer, but AFAIK here patents only cover selling or
> distributing patented devices.

GIYF.  http://www.bitlaw.com/patent/rights.html

> You are still free to take a patent (all
> patents are public), build the device yourself and use it freely. Only
> if you start selling the devices you are building (and probably even if
> you start distributing them for free) will the patent protection kick in.

Not in the USA.

>   This makes a lot more sense to me, in more than one way. 

Me too. Sadly, that's not how it is in the USA.  IANAL.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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