PATENTS & LICENSES -- Covering Their Assets

The concept of patent awarding and infringement sounds like a straightforward proposition, but the very act of trying to be unambiguous itself leads to confusion. It results in such complex descriptions written in legalese and with so many qualifying statements that they become all but undecipherable. The exercise is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall. The harder you work to pin it down, the more that oozes out around the edges.