Ask HN: Patents and Patenting - should I stop now?

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by rschmitty • 13 years ago
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Ask HN: Patents and Patenting - should I stop now?

Dear HN: I've been working on a weekend project where it involves generating a schedule and ultimately printing out a calendar for the client to take home.

When trying to find competitors for this I could not find anyone else doing this specialized calendar (doesn't mean they don't exist of course)

After not finding results I then searched patents, and couldn't find any related (again I realize it is not 100% not out there)

However I did come across a generic 'calendar generator' patent: https://www.google.com/patents/US20050257176

Does this mean I would need to license calendar generation in order to continue (or hope sales are never much such that I'm never a target)?

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