Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:59:59 01/07/04
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On January 07, 2004 at 13:00:32, Ed Trice wrote: >Hi Bob, > >> >>You forgot to add the smiley at the end of your sentence. : ) >> >>"Big Brother is watching you!" >> > >No, it wasn't that :) I was on the phone with my attorney for another reason >(writing a contract for another project) and I read him Dr. Hyatt's post. > >I have never hear my attorney scream before (he said "WHAAAAAAAT!!!") > >I respect Dr. Hyatt tremendously, more than he knows, but I just wish those that >are not attorneys would stop making posts that are described as "legal suicide". > >The game is protected under a patent, no matter how it is represented. > >I am going to have to raise the licensing fee if I waste any more time on this >constant typing back and forth. > >:) Perhaps you should explain to your attorney the "context". Ask him if you or he can prevent _me_ from writing a program that plays any game on the planet. The answer is _no_. BTW we _do_ have several patent attorneys here, since drugs, bio-engineering, and all sorts of things are patented every day... you patent a drug, I can make it all day in my house for my own use...
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