So what about automotive repair manuals? I used to own a service station and for years had to pay big money for repair information to fix the cars people would bring us to fix. This information is considered to be factual information but yet the car manufacturers make millions selling this info to companiesevery year- and they in turn sell it to independant automotive shops(like i used to own). according to this ruling, if this information was re-written it could be used by others as long as it didn't follow the same sequence as the original manual- does this sound correct or is it because the information is based on a product(their cars)?
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like was already mentioned: NTP sat on these patents for years and did nothing with them AND the patents are way too broad anyhow
So what about automotive repair manuals? I used to own a service station and for years had to pay big money for repair information to fix the cars people would bring us to fix. This information is considered to be factual information but yet the car manufacturers make millions selling this info to companies every year- and they in turn sell it to independant automotive shops(like i used to own). according to this ruling, if this information was re-written it could be used by others as long as it didn't follow the same sequence as the original manual- does this sound correct or is it because the information is based on a product(their cars)?