On 7/30/09 at 3:03 PM +0100, Samuel Weiler wrote:
What harms would come from destroying those old records and/or not collecting such details in the future? And how widespread is the support for destroying them?
Repeating something I just mentioned to Sam in the hallway (and IANAL, even though I teach some of this stuff to engineers):
There is some case law that says that if you participate (even passively) in a standards body in which patent disclosure is required, and you choose not to disclose your patents, you may lose your rights to assert the patents. Having a blue sheet with someone's name on it may be sufficient for a court to find that the person can't assert. I think that makes the blue sheets worth keeping.
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