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Subject: Re: On avoiding Gothic Chess licensing problems

Author: Ed Trice

Date: 06:08:56 06/19/04

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On June 19, 2004 at 04:10:55, Russell Reagan wrote:

>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.

Ridiculous. The patent office is renowned for shooting down every patent filing
on the first round, and then making you document everything from soup to nuts
just to deserve a second go around.

Try patenting anything, then open your mouth.



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