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- From: pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.023518.20062@shearson.com>
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- References: <1992Dec19.003019.19378@netcom.com> <1992Dec19.002123.10430@news.cs.indiana.edu> <1992Dec19.060226.28591@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:35:18 GMT
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- strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
- >
- >Marc VanHeyningen asks "what license fee?" for RSAREF.
- >
- >I guess I have to spell it out. Some have argued that the most PKP
- >could collect in a successful patent lawsuit is damages, i.e. license
- >fees not paid, i.e. zero since RSAREF carries none.
- >
- >My post pointed out that PKP could also get legal fees.
-
- But as my post has pointed out, it is rather unlikely given US Civil
- law that anyone could recover legal fees as they are not routinely
- awarded to the winner. Dan Quayle's Council on Competitiveness felt
- that this was the reason lawsuits occur so much more often in the US
- and wanted statutory reform that would change our system to follow the
- U.K. rule under which fees are awarded.
-
- I may be wrong about this, but I seriously doubt it.
- --
- Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
- --
- Laissez faire, laissez passer. Le monde va de lui meme.
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