OT: Patent Listing

[Alison Craig]

This is off topic, but with all the tech writing knowledge out there, I figured this was a good place to start. Off-list replies would be wonderful.


I have been given a new patent to list in my documentation - but it's a patent we have legal permission to use. It does not belong to us.

Per the attached, all of our patents are listed on title pages and in a Chapter 1 section called (unsurprisingly) Trademarks and Patents (in tiny documents without cover and title pages, the patents are included in the first page footer).

My first inclination is to list the 3rd party patent only in manuals with the Chapter 1 Trademarks and Patents section - something like "The following third party patents are used in SonixGPS(tm) software: xxxxxxx." (Note that SonixGPS(tm) will be added to the Ultrasonix trademark list before the next manual release.)

Does anyone have any patent "credit" experience that could shed some light on how to handle this? As I haven't actually been given the name of the company from whom we "licensed" use of this patent, I can't include it. Am I supposed to?

If it matters, we are a Canadian company, but we sell all over the world.

Alison


Alison Craig
Technical Documentation Lead

604-279-8550 | fax 604-279-8559 | toll-free 1-866-437-9508
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation | www.ultrasonix.com<http://www.ultrasonix.com/>

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