Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Michael Shields (shields@msrl.com)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 04:47:09 +0000 (GMT)

> You don't have to take my word for it. Go to
> http://www.law.cornelle.edu and go to US Code 35, PART III, CHAPTER
> 29, "Remedies". You will find that paragraph 286 is the only one in
> which non-enforcement affects your ability to get remedies for patent
> infringement, and furthermore, it only affects THAT PARTICULAR
> INFRINGEMENT -- i.e., it doesn't affect any other infringement. The time
> limit, BTW, is six years (if you violate the patent for six years and
> they don't sue you, they can't sue you anymore).

Thanks, I am wrong. It's good to have a cite for the source material.

-- 
Shields.


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