Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 21:56:10 02/23/98
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On February 23, 1998 at 21:38:03, Steven Schwartz wrote: >There have been only two piece-recognition >boards ever commercially available: the TASC >Smartboard and, earlier, the Mephisto Bavaria. > I just read on the London Chess Center web page that there is a piece recognition board being marketed for/with Fritz. Have you heard of that one? Do you know if the judgement against TASC prevents it from selling Smartboard entirely? This is a perfect example of why patents need to go to people who either exercise them, e.g. through manufacturing, or to people who profit them by selling rights. Having a patent go to one person who then doesn't allow it to be used for the betterment of its domain is not what the patent was really meant for. What a shame. It also shows that the patent system does not conduct a truly comprehensive search else it would have found the trivial counter example cited by Hyatt of Thompson's board. --Stuart
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