On 2018-07-27 13:33:28 -0400, Chapman Flack wrote: > On 07/27/2018 01:01 PM, Andres Freund wrote: > > > the patch and people doing so can reasonably be expected to know about > > the patents, making further contributions by them worse. > > I'm not sure this line of thinking, which seems rooted in notions of > tainted or cleanroom development from the copyright world, has the > same force wrt patents.
Yes, violations made with knowledge triples damages in the US. > Sometimes a good understanding of a patented technique, including > just what aspects of it are claimed or not in the patent's claims > section, will be just what you need in order to be confident that > an alternative approach you've devised really is different in the > ways that matter. I don't think it automatically casts a cloud on > the work as it would in the copyright case. There's no way we can do that without extensive lawyerly input in each case. Greetings, Andres Freund
