IETF Patent Licenses are RAND

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Fri Mar 21 04:12:06 UTC 2003


Eben Moglen scripsit:

> Under US patent law, injunctions against distribution of infringing
> goods are scarce as hens' teeth.  The adequate remedy is assumed to be
> royalties by way of damages.  

IANAL, but it seems to me that that is the precise situation when the
plaintiff would ask for an injunction in lieu of damages, since so many
of us are not only royalty free but judgment proof.

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