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> Ask your legal counsel, and I strongly suspect that if he is any good, he
> will tell you the same thing. Namely that it's _his_ problem, and that
> your engineers should not waste their time trying to find existing
> patents.

Partially true for us.  We do do patent searches to make sure we aren't
doing anything blatently stupid.

I do agree with you 100% that it is impossible to ship any software that
does not infringe on some patent.  It's a big point of contention in 
contract negotiations because everyone wants you to warrant that your
software doesn't infringe and indemnify them if it does.  
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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