On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 06:41:14 GMT, Robert Baer
wrote:

John Fields wrote:

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But, if it's patented, it'll be illegal for you to build one.


Absolutely *NOT* true.
It is OK for one to build a device for one's own use; what is
protected is *selling* the devices without a licence from the patent owner.

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Absolutely, totally, incontrovertibly wrong.

I posted these links befo

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac...l/infringe.htm

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac..._U_S_C_271.htm

Didn't you bother to read them?

This subject has come up in these newsgroups before, and the last
time it did I called the USPTO and talked to one of the people there
about infringement and whether it was legal to copy a patent for
one's own use and the answer was a resounding NO!

Makes sense if you think about it. What if you were an inventor and
everyone made a copy of your invention for their own use. Where
would that leave you?



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JF