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Subject: Re: What happened to TASC?

Author: Roy Brunjes

Date: 11:26:40 10/27/01

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On October 27, 2001 at 13:16:14, O. Veli wrote:

>They had very nice products such as R30, TascBase, Chessica and Tasc CD a few
>years back. But they were suddenly out of business. I heard about a court ruling
>penalizing them for 500,000 USD. If that is the case what was the court about?
>Thanks.

I certainly am no expert on this matter.  Having said that, I believe there was
a $500000 fine levied against them by a US company (person?) for violation of a
patent held on the piece recognition system used by the R30.

That may have been enough to force TASC out of business.

Roy



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