Re: legal status of David Brownell's zcip code

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On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:52 pm, Andreas Hofmeister wrote:
> In such a case however, it might be unwise to ignore those patents,
> because in court the patent holder could argue that just because you
> implemented an IETF standard, you should have seen such a patent
> registry and therfore you should have known about the patents.
That was my approach - do not attempt discovery, but having been made aware=
, I=20
couldn't afford to pay a patent lawyer to consider it. The '499 patent from=
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Microsoft was already notified, but it had (very) roughly the right words=20
attached that I considered it OK.

Brad

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