Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:02:03 02/27/98
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On February 27, 1998 at 20:00:32, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >On February 24, 1998 at 15:37:21, Steven Schwartz wrote: > >>On February 24, 1998 at 14:51:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On February 24, 1998 at 12:21:58, Steven Schwartz wrote: >>> >>>>On February 24, 1998 at 12:07:18, Bert Seifriz wrote: >>>> >>>>>On February 24, 1998 at 08:58:28, Steven Schwartz wrote: >>>>>>I have heard of a DGT board, but I have no details. >>>>>>However, before we would get involved with any other >>>>>>piece-recognition board, we certainly will consult >>>>>>our patent attorneys and Bruce Bogner (Brehn). >>>>> >>>>>Hi Steve, is Bruce Bogner >>>>>the father of Hal Bogner >>>>>who used to run Chess Labs >>>>>in South Pasadena? >>>>> >>>>>If so, I know that they were pursuing >>>>>this thing a long time! >>>>>Bert >>>> >>>>Hi Bert, >>>>Yup! Hal is Bruce's son and yes, they have been at this >>>>for quite awhile. After all, the patent is from 1991 >>>>and not much after that, Bruce traveled to TASC and not >>>>much after that, TASC came out with the Smartboard. >>>> >>>>Bruce has been on TASC's case (literally) ever since. >>>>- Steve >>> >>> >>>Of course this is only about 13 years after the technology was >>>displayed by Ken Thompson in Washington DC, 1978, at the ACM event >>>that year. :) >>> >>>It's a shame no one took up the gauntlet and challenged the patent >>>based on widely-known prior work by Ken. >> >>I could not agree more, Bob, and we would have pursued that >>had we been the primary focus of the lawsuit. >>-Steve > >Is there any way to go "backwards" and get a patent "ungranted"? > >--Stuart from what I know, yes. It simply requires proof that something was a prior work. The problem then becomes one between the person holding the invalid patent, the attorney that did the patent search to be sure nothing had been done before, and the bonding company that bonded this search. In this case, hundreds of people saw Ken's piece recognition in 1978 in Washington. Years before anyone thought about patenting the idea.
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