Re: Evil Designers Guide to Copying Patents

Mar 22, 2007 5 Replies

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Paul Hovnanian P.E. 19 years ago

Do it in software. Contract the code work out to an offshore s/w house. Don't release the source. If the potential patent/copyright owner suspects something, you are protected against their reverse engineering it by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (particularly if you have incorporated minimal DRM into the product).

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D from BC 19 years ago

I wonder how often that happens..

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Paul Hovnanian P.E. 19 years ago

It happens.

Another place that patents are vulnerable is covering processes or algorithms. If the delivered article doesn't actually contain the code (object or source), how would an examination reveal an infringement?

A hypothetical example: If someone were to duplicate Google's search algorithms, but move their servers to a jurisdiction which doesn't honor US subpoenas, how could Google ever establish that the competitor had infringed rather than come up with a unique algorithm of their own? The delivered product contains no direct evidence of the process used to generate it.

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Dirk Bruere at NeoPax 19 years ago

Maybe use a reverse compiler, then recompile. Different burned code, no problem.

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jasen 19 years ago

how does a college examiner detect copied answers.

Bye. Jasen

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Paul Hovnanian P.E. 19 years ago

Catch somebody peeking at their neighbor's paper.

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