On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:12:58 -0700, Winston
wrote:

Ned Simmons 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.


I didn't know that. Thanks, Ned!

http://www.uspto.gov/patents/resources/general_info_concerning_patents.jsp#heading-24

"The [patent] grant confers 'the right 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'".

Another childhood illusion STH!

Sest lavvy, wot?

It's just that sending a speaking weasel after everyone who made one
of the client's gadgets wouldn't be cost effective.

--
Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why
good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a
heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people
can handle it.
-- Hugh Macleod