• DocumentCode
    1234598
  • Title

    Invention: the pitfalls of patent searches knowing about

  • Author

    Teska, Kirk

  • Volume
    45
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    6/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    29
  • Lastpage
    29
  • Abstract
    Knowing about patents can sometimes be worse than not knowing. You can learn a lot by searching patents, but what you learn can sometimes be dangerous. If a court should ever find that you infringed on a patent knowingly, you might have to pay triple the damages, together with attorney fees.
  • Keywords
    patents; attorney fees; infringed; legal damages; patent searches; Circuits; Costs; Knowledge engineering; Law; Legal factors; Protection;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.2008.4531456
  • Filename
    4531456