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- From: Edward Avis epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk
- Subject: [Patents] Re: Company questionnaire
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 11:58:05 +0100 (BST)
>From: Hans Schou <chlor@schou.dk>
>Subject: [Patents] Company questionaire, Denmark
>In cooperation with danish politicians we are going to send
>a questionaire to danish software companies.
>
>Have you any suggestions to the following questions?
I think the questions put too much emphasis on 'will you use patents
against other companies' and not enough on 'are you worried about others
attacking you'. In particular, the risk analysis question is tucked
away at the end.
This may be biased, but I would have questions looking more like this:
- How many lines of code are contained in your currently marketed
software?
- How long would it take you to check each line for infringement of any
given software patent?
- Have you performed a risk analysis of being sued for infringement of
one of the thousands of software patents already granted in the US?
Perhaps those questions are too loaded. But you need something a little
more in that direction IMHO.
--
Ed Avis
epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk
- [Patents] Re: Company questionnaire, Edward Avis epa98
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