Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:36:40 01/09/04
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On January 08, 2004 at 23:13:24, Chessfun wrote:
>On January 08, 2004 at 21:48:12, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On January 08, 2004 at 12:41:21, Ed Trice wrote:
>>
>>>Hello Christophe,
>>>
>>>>
>>>>You should not rest on this.
>>>>
>>>>The fact that there is a patent does *not* mean that it is valid.
>>>>
>>>>It is a known fact that the US office of patents has stopped long ago to check
>>>>anything in the patents they grant.
>>>>
>>>>You ask for a patent, they give it to you. They don't check anything.
>>>
>>>Umm...no. The patent received an initial rejection, called a 102 or 103
>>>rejection, I forget which.
>>
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>>Is the fact that an initial version of the patent proposal has been rejected
>>supposed to convince us that the patent is valid now?
>>
>>The US Office of Patents registers crap. Your first version must have been worse
>>than crap. Congrats.
>>
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>>>It is said they flat out reject 90% of the patents just for the hell of it.
>>>
>>>They cited Gollon from 1977 showing an 80 square board (Capablanca's) then I had
>>>to prove mine to be unique.
>>>
>>>I am not sure where you get your misinformation, did you just make that up?
>>>
>>>:)
>>
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>>When you wrote this I'm sure you thought you had a point (BTW this sentence has
>>been patented in 2002 by Chessfun, and I am using it without permission - Oops
>>she's gonna sue me now).
>
>
>I think you modified my original "I'm sure you thought you had a point when you
>posted." Sarah (tm) just enough that this time I won't be contacting my lawyer.
Aah... Right. Your original was actually better. :)
>However please be aware that I am monitoring all posts, this includes all
>foreign languages.
I have always suspected it was the case. :)
>Best ..opps anyone have that?.
I guess somebody has already started a search for prior art... :)
Christophe
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