Re: How do you deal with patents when you are designing a ch
It's hard to add anything to a great answer from cellphone! Anyway, a few more points:
1. If you are working for a large company, it probably has a lot of cross-licensing agreements with others. Even if some particular patent is not covered and your company gets sued, it can counetrsue for violation of its won IP and it all ends up with cross-licensing agreement.
So, if you are working for a large company, dont bother to search, the company lawyers cover you.
2. If you know about the patent and infringe it anyway, the punishment is much heavier in some countries. And wise versa if you infringe because you did not know, you get somewhat lighter judgement. So it sometimes worth to not search too deep.