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Awesome! Congrats, Michael.

Brazo, your question is very broad...

US is the first to invent jurisdiction, that means if you started working on your system before they filed for this patent, you are the first inventor, and at the least, you have the right to continue with your business.

If you are not the first, you should get someone familar with IP (intellectual property), ideally a lawyer, to look at that patent for you. Read their claims (not their patent body) carefully to see if it covers what and how you want to do it. Sometimes the patent may read a certain way - because that's what a good lawyer does: draft very broad description for the patent, but their ability to enforce may be limited to a certain way of doing things, or certain results, or certain combination of properties and functions of the sensor system.

Also look into the patent history to see if the patent family is alive. If they have filed a continuation applicaiton, for example, since this issued patent, then the family is alive, which means they will have the scope of adding claims, based on their patent body, if they notice that you are working on their space.

If everything reads right on to what you want to do, check the prosecution history of the patent - the back and forth argument and evidence that this large corporation did with the patent office in order to get this patent allow to see if there are holes in their argument. This will help you figure out where you fit in the deal.

In short, get someone who is familiar with IP to check this for you. Until someone reads that patent and do due diligence on it, will be hard for anyone to say.

That's just the IP part. There is the business decision which believe it or not is separate. If all fails on the IP side, maybe approach this company for a licensing opportunity.

Best of luck.

Thank you. I have added your question to the list.

Thanks, NEPatriot. That's an unusual question. I have never thought of that. Thanks.

:) a very good point. Let's ask him the hard question! Thanks.

Great questions, pavs. Thanks so much for putting a lot of thought into this. Really appreciate it.

It is for me. Loading takes forever. I gave up, only use web now. Web is fast and good for me though.

Absolutely, execution is the key. Btw, I checked the site but don't get what magicbeef is about...

Great list. Thanks for sharing.

Great post and the quote perfectly sums it up.

Interesting discussion to have. I think it is a little bit like Esperanto, the makeup language that IF the whole world was to learn and use that uniform language, it would be so beneficial. Internet users probably don't need another place to sign up with a new set of username and password, so the concept of Open ID is really great. There is also some incentive for website owners (less friction), but if it ultimately means that only a few Google, Yahoo,... own all user identities, will that be the right solution?

Antonio, are you referring to the lack of the real human contact? I think the bonds in human relationship should be there, then emails and other things help with efficiency. She talked about this on building relationship by giving/helping others first.