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Subject: Re: On avoiding Gothic Chess licensing problems

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 01:10:55 06/19/04

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On June 18, 2004 at 20:38:54, Sune Fischer wrote:

>I agree. I wonder if those who granted the patent really understood what they
>were doing.


Of course not. The U.S. pattent office is notoriously bad for accepting
virtually anything, and then relying on people challenging the patents after the
fact. Maybe they have too much work to do and not enough people to do the work.
Who knows. In any case, it is a real problem.



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