But how do patents actually work? If say I invented X and didn't know that you too had invented X, would I then be in infringement?
I come to think about the Clean Room Design method where one apparently is allowed to reverse engineer any copyrighted product as long as you recreate a design spec solely based on "observation".
Can the same be done for patents issues? Say you had invented X, could I then "observe" and "reinvent" X?
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I totally agree.
But how do patents actually work? If say I invented X and didn't know that you too had invented X, would I then be in infringement?
I come to think about the Clean Room Design method where one apparently is allowed to reverse engineer any copyrighted product as long as you recreate a design spec solely based on "observation".
Can the same be done for patents issues? Say you had invented X, could I then "observe" and "reinvent" X?