03-26-2003, 06:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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Stupid Patent Tricks: Playing Multiplayer Games on Handhelds a No No.
http://www.pocketgamer.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2397
"Peer-to-Peer Systems LLC announced today that it has served a Complaint on Palm, Inc., the Milpitas, California-based maker of personal digital assistants ("PDAs"). The Complaint alleges that the use of Palm PDAs and clone PDAs to play multiple player games wirelessly and interactively on two or more such devices directly infringes Peer-to-Peer's U.S. Patent No. 5,618,045 ("the '045 patent") relating to methods and apparatus for playing interactive, multiple player computer games on ad hoc, wireless local area networks."
Good grief. :roll:
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03-26-2003, 06:14 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 200
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"Gee, let's take an existing concept, apply it to handheld devices, and patent it!" :roll:
The patent's not worthy of even being my toilet paper...
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03-26-2003, 06:16 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 62
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Is this another one of those things like years ago when a company (software toolworks, I beleive) said they had the patent on multimedia?
This kind of things suck.... I have to go get a cup of coffee now (unless thta activity is also patented...)
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03-26-2003, 06:20 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 43
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bollocks.
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03-26-2003, 06:27 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 119
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I didn't read the patent, I doubt it's enforcable, but I have questions about the word "ad hoc" wireless network. Does this imply the patent doesn't apply if I'm using a fixed wireless network, such as a cell phone network? (or a home wireless router)
I smell a rat.
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03-26-2003, 06:29 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 495
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Well, how many games on Pocket PC are unlicensed versions of existing games with only minor changes to their theme or gameplay? Are they new games just because they are on a new platform and change a few sprites and sounds? How legal is it to sell a console emulator for Pocket PC when you have to know that the majority of people will be playing games they do not have original licenses (the original game cart or disk) for? And how many people are making and selling Pocket PC themes with copywrited material on Handango and PocketGear?
I believe there are a great many questions unanswered when it comes to our handheld addiction.
But trying to patent multiplayer gaming over ad hoc wireless... come on. That's like trying to patent wireless internet browsing from a Pocket PC.
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03-26-2003, 06:36 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 354
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by feo
Is this another one of those things like years ago when a company (software toolworks, I beleive) said they had the patent on multimedia?
This kind of things suck.... I have to go get a cup of coffee now (unless thta activity is also patented...)
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Yes and like British Telecom claiming patent of the Hyperlink. :roll:
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03-26-2003, 06:53 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 383
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Here in Finland patents are very, *very* hard to get and it really seems like the things are quite the opposite in the states. Here's a classic from the last fall.
another long URL
And there are thousands of others that are just as smart as this one. :roll:
/jizmo
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03-26-2003, 07:00 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 383
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+can someone tell me why the [url] thing doesn't work?.. I've used it many times before with success.
A bad patent, maybe? :?
/jizmo
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03-26-2003, 07:17 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by jizmo
+can someone tell me why the [url] thing doesn't work?.. I've used it many times before with success.
A bad patent, maybe? :?
/jizmo
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Dunno. I hate the URL tag. I use the HREF tag. Now, quit breaking my edit of your insanely long URL. :wink:
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