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Different approach to requiring inventor's to sublicense #23

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@tarul tarul commented Jun 1, 2012

My take at addressing #18

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is her

(a) against an Entity that has filed, maintained, threatened, or voluntarily participated in an intellectual property lawsuit against Assignee or any of Assignee’s users, affiliates, customers, suppliers, or distributors;

(b) against an Entity that has filed, maintained, or voluntarily participated in a patent infringement lawsuit against another in the past ten years, so long as the Entity has not instituted the patent infringement lawsuit defensively in response to a patent litigation threat against the Entity; or
(b) against an Entity that has filed, maintained, or voluntarily participated in a patent infringement lawsuit against another in the past ten years, so long as the Entity has not instituted the patent infringement lawsuit for a Defensive Purpose in response to a patent litigation threat against the Entity; or
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Since we've defined "Defensive Purpose", I think it makes sense to use it here instead of leaving open what "defensively" might mean here. Although I just realized this in now a circular loop. :(
My intent was to have (a) and (c) included under "defensively"...

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