[Sussex] Some Good Will Come From Software Patents

[Steve Dobson]

Geoff

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:43:27PM +0000, Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 16:44 +0000, Gareth Ablett wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> One thing.. a company can sue you in a US court no matter what your law
> says (see the recent case with the Russian government and that big Oil
> firm).  Whether your country would accept the US courts judgement is
> another matter, but if you are an international entity you're
> screwed ;-)

How?

I would agree if company X imported software from Y that violated 
Z's patent that X would have to paid Z to use that software.  There are
a number of practices that, while illeage in one country, and the way
of doing business in others, back-handers for example.

How would you go about suing the company?  Any international company
worth it sort will place the approprate legial blocks in place to stop
this kind of action.

Steve