question about patent

[Ric Wheeler]

Without reading or looking at the patent at all, it is almost always really bad 
to discuss patents in public, especially on email.

Patents & patent trolls are so pervasive that you can help feed patent trolls by 
bringing up the possibility of infringement in these forums (even when they are 
marginal claims).

I have always been given guidance that engineers should never, ever do patent 
searches and never discuss the specifics of IP issues in email.

Regards,

Ric