• To: "John Cowan" <jcowan@r...>
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• From: "Bob Foster" <bob@o...>
• Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:29:30 -0500
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From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@r...>
> The trouble is that (especially with patents) there may be submarines
> which neither RFP creator nor proposer is aware of.  Your only defense
> against this is general anti-patent insurance.

The only forms of anti-patent insurance I am aware of are:

- No assets to speak of
- Mutually assured destruction

Are there others?

Bob Foster

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