tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949935810569534550.post202396739667320356..comments2023-08-17T14:09:24.945+01:00Comments on PatLit: the patent litigation weblog: "Commercially essential" patents: an explanationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949935810569534550.post-45514490768461369732013-05-31T19:33:33.357+01:002013-05-31T19:33:33.357+01:00No difference in the conveyed meaning from that ca...No difference in the conveyed meaning from that captured in typical definition of ‘necessary claims’ such as in USB 3.0 CONTRIBUTORS AGREEMENT excerpted below?<br /><br />1.8 “Necessary claims” means claims of a patent or patent applications that (a) are owned or controlled by a party, now or at any future time; and (b) are necessarily infringed by implementing those portions of the Final Specification within the bounds of the Scope, wherein a claim is necessarily infringed only when it is not possible to avoid infringing it because there is no commercially reasonable non-infringing alternative for implementing such portions of the Final Specification within the bounds of the Scope. . . .<br /><br />PeterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com