I strongly suspect you'd not be allowed to export it to the USA without a license agreement with the people who patented it. Which basically means, 'if you put it on the Internet, they can sue you'.
Put it behind an 'I am not from the USA' page and you might get away with it:)
Unless you have some assets in the US that could be seized, no.
Patent violation is a civil offence, not criminal, so you're not in danger of extradition, and there's no authority in the UK that could enforce any judgement against you.
In extreme cases, it may be wise to avoid setting foot on US soil, but even then I doubt you'd be in any real danger.
I'm not sure whether the US doesn't have a treaty with us relating to civil recovery, so that if you were found liable by a US court, they could come to some arrangement with a British one to enforce the judgment, but as below, you'd only start racking up infringment claims if you were responsible for the importing.
In that case the plaintiff would presumably have to establish US jurisdiction to the satisfaction of a US court and a UK court (Depends on how one-sided any such treaty is, of course...).
For example, if one were to sell a software product online, with delivery by download, but it happened to get bought by a USian and downloaded to the US, I think any patent holder would have a hard time convincing a UK court that the seller is the importer and therefore subject to US law.
One could easily get oneself into trouble by explicitly marketing to the US though, and obviously it would be a lot more clear cut for a physical product.
It's also worth bearing in mind that the patent holder can only sue for actual damages, which are hard to prove if the product happens to be free...
You are free to implement it over here, without any problems, however you, or anyone else, importing the product into the US would be liable for patent infringment unless you had permission from the patent holder.
In that case, assuming it's a software product: Sell it online, choice of physical delivery to Europe or by download. Operate as a private limited company so you can't be sued personally. Offer payment by PayPal or similar in Sterling and/or Euros. Don't explicitly market to the US. Retain copyright in the software personally and license the distribution rights to your company. This ensures that if your company is sued out of existence, you get to keep the most important asset.
Chances are you'll get away with it, especially if you don't advertise your use of the patented tech. Even if you don't, your company is liable, not you, and hopefully you've already paid yourself most of the profits in salary and bonus.
It's for a potential diskmag I may or may not even start. Any sales would be £5 probably, or half that for bulk orders. The profit would be non existant, once you take the cost of media and posting stuff. It's being done for fun, not financial gain. I'd charge, but for the physical disks, more than for the data on them (a cut down version of which would be for free download anyway).
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I strongly suspect you'd not be allowed to export it to the USA without a license agreement with the people who patented it. Which basically means, 'if you put it on the Internet, they can sue you'.
Put it behind an 'I am not from the USA' page and you might get away with it:)
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Unless you have some assets in the US that could be seized, no.
Patent violation is a civil offence, not criminal, so you're not in danger of extradition, and there's no authority in the UK that could enforce any judgement against you.
In extreme cases, it may be wise to avoid setting foot on US soil, but even then I doubt you'd be in any real danger.
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For example, if one were to sell a software product online, with delivery by download, but it happened to get bought by a USian and downloaded to the US, I think any patent holder would have a hard time convincing a UK court that the seller is the importer and therefore subject to US law.
One could easily get oneself into trouble by explicitly marketing to the US though, and obviously it would be a lot more clear cut for a physical product.
It's also worth bearing in mind that the patent holder can only sue for actual damages, which are hard to prove if the product happens to be free...
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Oh, and whats the plan for friday?
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In that case, assuming it's a software product: Sell it online, choice of physical delivery to Europe or by download. Operate as a private limited company so you can't be sued personally. Offer payment by PayPal or similar in Sterling and/or Euros. Don't explicitly market to the US. Retain copyright in the software personally and license the distribution rights to your company. This ensures that if your company is sued out of existence, you get to keep the most important asset.
Chances are you'll get away with it, especially if you don't advertise your use of the patented tech. Even if you don't, your company is liable, not you, and hopefully you've already paid yourself most of the profits in salary and bonus.
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It's for a potential diskmag I may or may not even start. Any sales would be £5 probably, or half that for bulk orders. The profit would be non existant, once you take the cost of media and posting stuff. It's being done for fun, not financial gain. I'd charge, but for the physical disks, more than for the data on them (a cut down version of which would be for free download anyway).
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