Re: A thought about patents

[John Stracke]

Masataka Ohta wrote:

> > Even if it's not true in the general case, a sufficiently expensive lawyer
> > might be able to convince the court that, since the Internet makes location
> > irrelevant, the location of the infringement is irrelevant.
>
> that US patents are applicable even if both servers, clients and network
> inbetween are all located outside of US?

No, not that; but, if the server is outside the US and the client is inside, then
maybe.

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