On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:58:04AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Licensor brings suit against you alleging massive patent infringement > on your part. The chances of you successfully defending them all are > slim. Your choices are effectively settlement, or patent counter-suit > that kills your license.
If licensor grants a patent license for all of his patents related to the work, this scenario is irrelevant; I can simply point to the patent license. The topic of whether patent grants are a necessary component for patent defense clauses (my opinion: yes), and whether those grants have unfixable holes that render them insufficient (my opinion: maybe) is being actively discussed in another subthread. -- Glenn Maynard
