Re: RAND and non-commercial use license to end users

todd <tglassey@earthlink.net> Sun, 30 November 2014 18:04 UTC

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There are NO non-commercial PERSONAL USES, they all involve the 
commission of Commerce on the Internet. That means they are non-personal 
in form.

Todd
On 11/30/2014 9:56 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Let's assume there is a piece of technology for which vendors can only
> obtain licenses under conditions which do not allow them to grant end
> users sub-licenses for commercial use.  (I.e., they must stipulate in
> the product documentation that the IPR license is for personal,
> non-commercial use only.)
>
> Does this still fall under RAND terms?  I think it's distinctly
> lacking in the “reasonable” department, specifically considering there
> are jurisdictions where personal, non-commercial use of a patent is
> never infringement (sadly not the U.S., though).
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