Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 11:47:08 01/07/04
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On January 07, 2004 at 14:02:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 07, 2004 at 12:38:51, Ed Trice wrote: > >>Hello Dr. Hyatt, >> >>> >>>I don't believe a license is necessary to write a program to _play_ this game, >>>any more than I need a license to write a program to play monopoly. >> >>That is because Monopoly is now beyond the 16 year umbrella of patent >>protection, while Gothic Chess is protected until 2019. The monopoly patent had >>no provisions for an electronic representation, while the Gothic Chess patent >>explicitly covers a programatic implementation as well. >> > >Then your patent has a basic flaw.. > >You can patent a "thing". You can patent "a process". You can't patent >something like "breathing" or "playing a game" however... Careful, Bob. You're living in the country, where M$ has a patent for undo/redo, IBM (I believe) has one for the progress bar and Apple has one for their trashcan icon in OSX. ;o) Sargon (who is glad the European parliament didn't vote for the changes concerning software patents - yet)
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