Those are some good issues you raise...

Discussing them in the abstract terms, however, can get a little confusing...

My resollection is that Appellate Case Law protects innocent "final users" of an allegedly infringed upon technology, if that technology was provided to them by an entity that had permission to use it and pu it into "Stream of Commerce"...

This raises all sorts of questions regarding EDIG arrangements in the past with such "Partners" as Texas Instruments, Portal Player, etc...

DM has to peel layers of onion skins to make his infringement case against some heavy weights that we all know about...

Gil