In article ,
Richard Clark wrote:

So by your interpretion of the law, it's ok for anyone to make a copy of
a patented item for personal use (which was the original statment)?

Whose making interpretations now? :-)
The findings already answered the matter with sufficient emphasis as
to intent. If you cannot distinguish intent, you should seek legal
counsel.

As I read the findings, they seem to state that one cannot be held
culpable of "willful infringement" of a patent if one builds a version
of the patented invention *and* makes a good-faith effort to modify it
so that it does not actually infringe on the patent claims. If the
changes aren't actually sufficient to avoid infringement, the fact
that you *tried* to avoid this is enough to keep your infringment from
being "willful".

I didn't see anything in the findings which absolves anyone from
infringement (willful or otherwise) if one reproduces a patented
invention for personal use and does *not* make a good-faith effort to
change it to avoid patent infringement.

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