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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12491