On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 10:13:48AM -0400, Chapman Flack wrote:
> On 07/23/2018 10:01 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > And the larger question is whether a patent free for use by software
> > under any license can be used in a defensive way. If not, it means we
> > have no way forward here.
>
> Isn't 'defensive', in patent-speak, used to mean 'establishing prior
> art usable to challenge future patent claims by others on the same
> technique'?
>
> Is there any way that conditions of use, or lack of them, on an
> existing patent, would make it unusable in that context?
It doesn't have to be a patent on the same technique; this URL was
referenced in the thread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_termination
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