Re: Evil Designers Guide to Copying Patents

DofBC:It could be a case of risk vs no company at all..

DofBC: Is there such a thing as a search warrant to check for copied tech?

DofBC: If a customer requests a few (underground) units and there 's thousands of dollars of profit. It might be tempting. There would be no marketing.

DofBC: My point is that one can get away with making a few copies.. Not flood Walmart.

DofBC: What smuggling?? :)....It's an voice activated toy robot...it just so happens the circuit board can be "recycled" as a home speech activated lamp controller. :)

DofBC: True...but serves to reduce risk..

DofBC: Schematics just make it easier to check for patent infringement.

DofBC: How is this just? Is it something goofy like charging 1.4 million in patent emotional damage ??

DofBC: I'll get that confirmed someday..

D from BC

An old friend of mine used to work as an engineer in the IP protection department (or something like it, staffed mostly with lawyers) for a big name company in Singapore. I don't remember which company it was, probably Texas Instruments or Intel. Anyway, from what he told me, his job is to reverse engineer competitor's products to find out if they violated any of his employer's IP.

There are a number of reverse engineering firms in Taiwan who'll do a

Reverse engineering is almost never done by looking at schematics. For one thing, the most important part is usually a black box in the form of an ASIC. Reverse engineering is hard work. But like I mentioned above, there are companies out there that does it for a living. If you suspect that your competitor is stealing your IP you can simply send that product to Taiwan to have it broken down and analysed.

My very limited (no pun intended) understanding of corporate limited liability is that the veil is pierced if they can show that the intent of setting it up was to defraud or primarily for some other illegal purpose. But if your activities merely include some illegal activity but it cannot be shown that was why you chose to incorporate, it isn't pierced.

Ah. I should have looked. Here's a wiki page on it:

Jon

Wow...this is shocking news to me..I didn't imagine.. It's like cool documentary material.. I really would like to see a Taiwan reverse engineering lab.. What a job... There's gotta be some sort of slang for a such a Rev Eng Taiwan house. Hack and Crack Shack? Chop Shop?

There are several companies in the US and Canada that will produce a schematic from an ASIC.

...Jim Thompson

I've seen some neat IP used to hide/disguise elements in circuits to slow down reverse engineering.

I have a interest in slowing down or eliminating reverse engineering.. Making something copy proof would dodge the costly patent process. Likewise, making electronics copy proof can also hide ripped patents.

I'm sure there's some engineers out there that have basement labs. Occasionally they get visited by "Mr. Green" that drops off an envelope of cash and new gizmo to copy. :) D from BC

Being new at usenet discussions, I was called a "top poster" one time. I was thinking.....Cool...I'm at the top!! I got the high score..Somehow there's a score system on here. :) Or maybe I'm posting too much and there's a courteous limit.. I quick check on wiki fixed that.. D from BC

AFAIK only "discovery" , after you file suit.

maybe epoxy with diamonds? it'd be like waving a red flag...

Bye. Jasen