Comment by Palomides
4 hours ago
>schematic that I could download that way wouldn't be affected by patents, as long as I'm not selling it
not true, there's no personal use exemption for patents
4 hours ago
>schematic that I could download that way wouldn't be affected by patents, as long as I'm not selling it
not true, there's no personal use exemption for patents
There effectively is a common law exemption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_exemption
the research exemption, at least in the us, is /very/ limited