What can you expect to occur when accused of infringing on a patent?
According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), if an inventor files suit against you for patent infringement, the court can either (1) order you to pay monetary damages and/or stop infringing or, (2) rule that you did not infringe on someone else’s invention.
A court may find you are not guilty of patent infringement when:
- You do not need a license to the patent because you are not practicing the invention.
- One or more of the patent claims are invalid.
- There are other explanations as to why the owner of the patent cannot prevail against you.
- If the court can find proof that your invention was created and has a prior patent, was displayed in a book, magazine, newspaper, television show, movie, webpage, or other published work before the patent owner created their own invention.
- The claimed invention was put up for sale in the original country where it was developed or was revealed to the public more than one year before the application for the patent was filed.
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