Dave__67 wrote:
On Oct 18, 4:21 pm, Ned wrote:
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:54:49 -0700 (PDT), Dave__67

wrote:

Also, no law stops someone from implementing any patented item for
their own use short of a commercial use.

Not so. There's no exception for personal use, in the US anyway.

--
Ned Simmons

Doing some reading, the enforcement mechanism still won't work if
there are no damages.

Anyway, if you made a copy of a patented item they may be able to keep
you from using it, issue an injunction to keep you from making more,
but no enforcement mechanism exists to make you destroy it or not
display it.

Basically a U.S. patent is a patentee's 'license to sue'
"*to exclude others from making*, using, offering for sale,
or selling the invention throughout the United States or
importing the invention into the United States'".

The Patent Office does not enforce patents.
Only wealthy companies can do that.
(The same companies that purchased the judge
and your lawyer.)

--Winston --Emphasis mine. All MINE, do you hear me?