Author: F. Huber
Date: 09:19:58 06/20/04
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On June 20, 2004 at 10:32:59, Andrew Dados wrote: >On June 18, 2004 at 23:55:53, Ed Trice wrote: > >> >>> >>>I have friends who have helped to bust patents which are far more valuable than >>>your Gothic Chess patent - like Hitachi versus Motorola. In my opinion the only >>>reason that the Gothic Chess patent won't be busted is because nobody cares >>>enough to spend the money to do it. >> >>What are you going to claim next, that your big brother can beat up my big >>brother? > >Since all the pieces you use in your capablanca variant existed prior to your >'invention' lets focus on your startup position. > >Now that you can patent a game position is serious idiocy from USPTO. > >Imagine I patent a sentence, say 'you are as dense as murky waters of Hudson >river' (well copyright would be appropriate name here, but since you patented >some combination of pieces and empty squares then some combination of letters is >obviously patentable too) Now I am definitely allowed to ban all future >typewriters and text editors, since they could be used to type my patented >sentence. > >You do realize patents were granted for things like hyperlink and browser popup >window? > >All that would not bother me at all, uspto takes money from anyone nowadays. >What bothers me is your recurring self-promotion here on CCC with some 'gothic >chess' BS. (note hexagonal chess used to be called 'gothic chess' years ago, so >even your name is not original) > >Just go promote your variant elsewhere. >And good luck with your lawyers > >-Andrew- I absolutely agree with you, Andrew - it couldn´t have been said with better words! :-) Franz.
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