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Originally Posted by droll View Post
http://www.uspto.gov/patents/resourc...jsp#heading-24

The grant confers “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States” and its territories.

You don't need to sell to violate the patent. Even making the invention or using the invention can be prohibited.
This has to be some US-patent thingy, since in Europe you cannot enforce a patent on something that is selfmade for own use. That would be pointless anyway, wouldn't it?

Whether a SW product or self-made piece of hardware, I really want to see how this is done in the US
Is the police going to come to your door (everybody's door? how often? once a month or every friday?) and raid your home for illegal things you might have made in your kitchen/bedroom/garage???

I know it is a police state but how are they going to get enough men to do that across the 52 states...


Originally Posted by droll View Post
You will get into trouble if you offer your keyboard in the US (since Swype is patented in the US). I am not sure if Swype is patented elsewhere but it wouldn't be too difficult to do a quick search (my own search seems to indicate that it is only patented in the US).

In other words, you should be fine to release your keyboard to anywhere but the US. My guess: Host it on a non-US based server and also put a disclaimer that it should not be used in the US.

I could be smoking pot and be way off my mark here but that's my humble take on the matter.
 

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