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Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> Most importantly:
> "The exclusive right shall not apply to:
> (1) use which is not commercial"
Wikipedia:
"""
The rights conveyed by a patent vary country-by-country. For example, in
the
United States, a patent covers research, except "purely philosophical"
inquiry. A U.S. patent is infringed by any "making" of the invention, eve
n a
making that goes toward development of a new invention—which may
itself
become subject of a patent.
"""
So here, you don't even get to try it out yourself to see if you can make
it
better. Actually, I thought that patents explicitly did *not* cover use
for
research purposes, so either Wikipedia is wrong, the law changed since I
learned it, or I'm misremembering. It would seem terribly counter-product
ive
to let patents exclude research, given that the whole patent system is
intended to promote research.
--
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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