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Subject: Re: Proposal: Disclosure of patents by Apache projects
From: =?utf-8?Q?Louis_Su=C3=A1rez-Potts?= <luispo@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 19:27:16 -0400
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> On 03 Jun 2015, at 15:21, Lawrence Rosen <lrosen@rosenlaw.com> wrote:
>=20
> A great question has been asked:
> > Why should we need to enumerate patent contributions?
>=20
> We own no patents and, as has repeatedly been pointed out, our ALv2 =
license itself already includes a grant for use and aggregation.
>=20
> There are at least three other good reasons for us to enumerate patent =
contributions to ASF:
>=20
> 1. A patent owner can obtain infringement damages only from the date =
of such a notice. 35 USC 287(a). The patent owner probably wants to have =
its patents enumerated to protect its own financial interests in that =
patent.
>=20
> 2. While certain patent claims have been licensed to ASF under a FOSS =
license and then to the worldother claims in those patents or =
(non-derivative) independent implementations that aren't FOSS-licensed. =
Take notice.
>=20
> 3. This notice is ASF's defense to willful blindness or willful =
infringement in an inducing patent infringement case. It asserts that we =
know of the patent and either (1) have a FOSS license to it, or (2) in =
our early but serious view we don't believe we infringe.
>=20

Larry,
Perhaps I missed something. Has there been a case or similar occasion =
that would cause us (ASF, that is) to assert more plainly than is now =
done patent contributions?

louis


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