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Subject: Re: To Ed Trice: Free legal advice

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 22:43:36 01/08/04

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On January 08, 2004 at 23:41:02, Ed Trice wrote:

>
>>
>>I guess that I'm not up on patent law. How can the filing date be so far after
>>public disclosure?
>>
>
>Because in 1998, 1999 and most of 2000 we played Capablanca's Chess.
>
>In July of 2000 I changed the setup to what is now called Gothic Chess.
>
>I filed for the provisional only a few months later (certainly much earlier than
>1 year from the original public demonstration.)

I know that at companies that I've worked at have been quite paranoid about
disclosure, so it would have been interesting to me if something had changed
here.

On another note - I don't understand why you wouldn't protect your piece design
itself given the amount of investment that you have made there. I guess that
this somehow all works out in your business plan.

Anyways given the amount of effort you have apparently put into this I wish you
luck. There are so many variants that it would be interesting to hear about how
you chose to investigate Capablanca's variant, and then alter it.



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