Re: New criminal offences?: patent infringement, writing filesharing software, inciting to violate intellectual property

Okay, d'oh: Patent infringement won't be a criminal offence, unless it's
intentional (as well as being on a commercial scale). But still it's
pretty alarming.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:55:51PM +0100, toad wrote:
> 
> So a sole trader who accidentally infringes the patent on the electronic
> shopping cart could _actually go to prison_. Nice. Or, perhaps, be
> denied access to state benefits while simultaneously being prohibited
> from engaging in commercial activity (interpreted narrowly, this would
> seem to mean that he can't run his own business and is doomed to be a
> shop/office drone; interpreted broadly it means becoming an unperson and
> joining the criminal underground). Presumably "in appropriate cases"
> restricts these sanctions to where they would seem reasonable.
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