[p2p-hackers] Online Codes

[agthorr at cs.uoregon.edu]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:16:57AM +1300, Nick Johnson wrote:
> Since infringing a patent requires meeting all the claims, it seems 
> likely to me that Online Codes won't infringe Digital Fountain's 
> patents. However, IANAPL.

IANAL either, but it was my understanding that infringing a patent
occurs when you infringe any of the claims, though a court may dismiss
some claims as being overly broad.  Thus, most patents have a series of
increasingly more specific claims, where the most-broad cover the most
scope, and the most-specific are most likely to hold up.

This is what I recall from taking an intellectual property course
several years ago, and appears to be true doing some quick search on
Google.

But, again, IANAL. :)