From Bernard.Lang@inria.fr Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:04:29 +0200
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:04:29 +0200
From: Bernard Lang Bernard.Lang@inria.fr
Subject: [Patents] Re: [Patents] game patents ??


a good quote

http://www.techreview.com/boston/
The Patent Pipeline
 Jeff George (VP IP & Standards at ATT),
 MIT Technology Review, March-April 2000. -

 "We want to build picket fences around the technologies that we think
are most important for the future."

the point is not innovation... just buiding fences and requesting toll.

exactly the same philosophy as the Middle-Age robber barons.

Bernard


On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 09:26:52PM +0100, Nick Fleming wrote:
> I didn't think games could be patented !
> 
> http://www.patents.ibm.com/cgi-bin/viewpat.cmd/US05649862__
> 
> AS found on http://www.gamedev.net/gamedev.asp
> 
> This has to be some sort of late april fool...
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> 
> 
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