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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by jacques_chester on Thursday July 23, 2020 @11:00PM (#23935257)
More precisely, a standing policy that researching patents is forbidden is prima facie evidence that your employees couldn't have possibly known about an existing patent. That means that a plaintiff suing for willful infringement will need to find evidence that someone went out of their way to ignore the policy. That might be quite difficult.

(Of course: not a lawyer, this is not legal advice)

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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by jbay808 on Saturday July 25, 2020 @02:30PM (#23951375)
Wow, I'm amazed that this would hold up. That's like saying that if I drive with a blindfold on, I couldn't possibly have willfully caused an accident because, as a matter of policy, I couldn't have been aware of the other cars on the road.
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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by jacques_chester on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:38PM (#23953487)
A more accurate analogy is a company policy that strictly prohibits driving.
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