Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 14:50:58 02/23/98
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On February 23, 1998 at 17:15:36, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >On February 22, 1998 at 17:33:44, Steven Schwartz wrote: > >>ICD and U.S. Chess offered to pay Brehn a fee to release us from >>the case, and we agreed not to sell the Smartboard after July 1st. >>The fee, ironically enough, was less than 25% of what our attorneys >>had charged us up to that point! >> >>Regards, Steve > >Whew! Sounds like a legal quagmire if I ever heard of one. > >Fortunately there is a new piece-recognition style board out for >or from the Fritz machine people that should be interfacable to others. >Unlike the Novag universal board which I believe does not have piece >recognition. > >My main need is to get one of these so I can interface it to my >own program since I am getting tired of entering all the moves via >keyboards. > >Since you "agreed not to sell the Smartboard after July 1st", >is that July 1 of 1997 or July 1 of 1998? If July 1 of 1998, could >I pick up the phone and call 800-645-4710 to buy it now? > >And thanks for all the detail. What a shame that such a good >technology gets so bogged down in this kind of swamp. > >--Stuart The agreement was as of July, 1996. I also would have grave concerns about any other piece recognition board unless it was approved by Brehn, the holder of the patent. -Steve
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