X-Message-Number: 12491
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 19:25:34 -0700
From: Jeff Davis <>
Subject: Limitations of patents?

Does a patent prohibit all unlicensed use of the patented item or process,
or just the unlicensed *commercial* use?  Specifically, if I start a
cryonics cooperative, which functions as a non-commercial organization
whose members perform their own suspensions on one another, and don't sell
anything to anyone, can I, without legal vulnerability, use patented
equipment, materials, or procedures, without paying the patent holders?
			Best, Jeff Davis

	   "Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
					Ray Charles				

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