Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:57:31 01/07/04
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On January 07, 2004 at 12:43:01, Ed Trice wrote: >On January 07, 2004 at 12:22:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >> >>I think my attorney's original take on this still stands. You can patent the >>game, but you really can't prevent someone from writing a program that _plays_ >>that particular game, and then he can do with it what he wants, from selling it >>or giving it away. > >This is very, very, very incorrect. Please acknowledge that I am advising you >that all of these posts are now being logged. Please log away. You have published the rules. I will certainly write a program to _play_ that game should I choose to do so, and I would not mind taking this to any court you might choose. You can patent something and prevent me from making and selling whatever it was you patented, but you can _not_ prevent me from making one for my own use. black-letter case law applies there.
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