Clever, funny, and very well presented. It seemed like I ended up suing the same products for the same infringements multiple times, I’m not sure if that was intentionaly.
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Yes, that was intentional due to some complexity compromises:
Each patent-invention pair has for each of the three main arguments (color, shape, function) a probability to win. We defined each manually. So 5 patents times 6 inventions/patent = 30 patent-invention pairs. 30 pairs times 3 arguments = 90 probabilities which need to be defined/balanced manually.
Opening up the possibility to infringe any product with any patent would be a combinatorical nightmare:
Each of the 5 patents could sue all 36 inventions with 3 arguments each: 540 probability values.