What is violating another company's patents?

Question

Can you give a specific example?

Answer 1

OK, sorry but none of these answers are close. A patent has "claims" at the back that define the invention covered by the patent. For example, if the patent is a manufacturing process, then the claim might be a series of steps that define the process. You violate a patent if you "make, use, sell or offer for sale" whatever is covered by the claim of a patent. It doesn't matter whether you are even aware of the patent. If you sell a product and a patentee later proves that your product is "covered" by a claim in his patent, then you have "infringed" his patent. This is one of the things that makes patents so valuable. If the claim is "broad" then it can cover many commercial devices or processes. That's an introduction, but there is more to it of course.

Answer 2

I designed a method of making a computer do special things, so I patent it with the patent office.
You come along, start to work for me, and you see how this is done, you go off to another company, and between you and them, you create the same thing using all or part of my design, which is patented...

Got it ???

Answer 3

if a company puts a patent on a product, it means that its a new product on the market. as soon as it has a patent, no one can make a similar product for 10 years i think. if you violate it, i guess it's when you make something similar.

Answer 4

A common example is the ongoing saga of opensource LINUX and SCO Unixs' claim that the underlying source was first written by its parent company. (groklaw.com). A good resource for presonal patent protection and more detailed information is below.

Answer 5

I'm not exactly sure what your asking here. But google now has a patent search where you can look up all patents under your search subject. -GeekSquad Agent Jerf-

Answer 6

stealing them for eg. if you take their patents word for word then that is a violation or here's a better eg, say you are making fake Gucci eye wear but, try to pass them as being real and you use their logo and whatnot, that is violating