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Businesses track new products and developments of their competitors.  They attend trade shows, receive information from mutual clients about new products offered by others. In response, companies may attempt to introduce a competitive alternative.  In doing so, they may reverse engineer (i.e., purchase and take apart) their competitors products.  When they base their products on [...]

Under Underwater Devices Inc. v. Morrison-Knudsen Co., 717 F.2d 1380 (Fed. Cir. 1983), when a potential infringer has actual notice of another’s patent, the potential infringer had an affirmative duty to exercise due care to determine whether or not he is infringing. In In re Seagate Technology LLC, 83 USPQ2d 1865 (Fed. Cir. 2007) (en [...]