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Nearly every hardware and software company sued!
2004-11-03, 5:58 AM #1
http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.asp?article_id=8236§ion=feature&email=
http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.asp?article_id=8236§ion=feature&email=

So whos being sued? Lets see...

Electronic Arts
Take-Two Interactive
Ubisoft
Activision
Atari
THQ
Vivendi Universal Games
Sega
Square Enix
Tecmo
LucasArts
Namco
Hometek
HP
Dell
IBM
Toshiba
SCEA
Acer
MPC
Systemax
Fujitsu
Micro Electronics
Matsu****a
Averatec
Polywell
Sharp
Twinhead
Uniwill
JVC
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2004-11-03, 6:00 AM #2
OMG WTF?

Wow, this could be nonsense that causes a lot of unnecessary trouble.
2004-11-03, 6:04 AM #3
Odd that they're just now noticing that this copyright infringment has been going on since, what, the early '90's?
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2004-11-03, 6:09 AM #4
Yeah, the best way to show your a lifeless scumbag is to wait 15 years to rake in the money from copyright infringments.
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Got a stretch to my stride;
a stroll to my step;
2004-11-03, 6:11 AM #5
Quote:
McKool Smith contends that these 12 companies infringed on their patent, "Method and Apparatus for Spherical Planning," or patent 4,734,690. The patent was originally filed in March 1988 for a specific method of displaying 3-D images on a monitor.


Kakdamn I hate our stupid patent system. Those idiots didnt defent the patent for over 16 years, and now they want royalties? GEEZE!


Excuse me whilst I go find my bat, so I can bludgeon to death all of those fascist pigs.
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2004-11-03, 6:13 AM #6
/me starts driving nails into a baseball bat

Can I come too?
2004-11-03, 6:27 AM #7
Won't go anywhere, you can't patent something that is just a logical advance in technology.

There was a scare in paintball a few years ago when the person who patented switches on paintball markers threatened to sue anyone who manufactured electric markers, but it went nowhere.
2004-11-03, 6:42 AM #8
You can't do that. That's like putting a patent on swimming.
2004-11-03, 6:57 AM #9
McKool is so not cool.
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2004-11-03, 7:02 AM #10
I think McDonald's should sue him over copyright infringment and giving Mc's a bad name everywhere.
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2004-11-03, 7:11 AM #11
good for them, a sly jipe makes someone rich.
2004-11-03, 7:14 AM #12
Doing none of the work and wanting all the profit, good idea!
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2004-11-03, 7:48 AM #13
people should be shot for being stupid...
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2004-11-03, 8:16 AM #14
That's, oh, 98% of people?

/me hands Salvation an Avenger minigun with all the 5mm he can carry.
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2004-11-03, 8:26 AM #15
Haha excellent.
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2004-11-03, 10:08 AM #16
Quote:
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet
You can't do that. That's like putting a patent on swimming.


If someone had to develop special technology so that people could swim, yes.
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2004-11-03, 10:26 AM #17
I dont think it's gonna work. Where have they been for 16 years? In a cave in Afghanistan?
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2004-11-03, 10:27 AM #18
waiting for the money to build up, sneaky bastards.

what role models.
2004-11-03, 2:51 PM #19
It's capitalism.

They are very smart. Why not reap the benefits? The lawyers are going to fight tooth and nail, I'm sure.
2004-11-03, 3:12 PM #20
Hurt//Maim//Kill these idiots//morons. God damn the justice//legal system in this country and those sue happy syncophants//bastards
2004-11-03, 3:42 PM #21
Couldn't they use that to sue every map maker? :rolleyes:
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2004-11-03, 3:48 PM #22
Quote:
Originally posted by drizzt2k2
Couldn't they use that to sue every map maker? :rolleyes:


But map makers aren't making money....
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2004-11-03, 5:51 PM #23
Quote:
Originally posted by drizzt2k2
Couldn't they use that to sue every map maker? :rolleyes:


No, map makers are merely using a tool to create something that uses the technology, they aren't actually distributing any form of the technology itself.
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2004-11-03, 5:53 PM #24
Quote:
Originally posted by TwistedSoul
Doing none of the work and wanting all the profit, good idea!


The American Way!
2004-11-03, 7:17 PM #25
Here's a link to the offical patent, at the US Patent office:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4,734,690.WKU.&OS=PN/4,734,690&RS=PN/4,734,690

Looking at that, the patent is easily outdated, due to being so vague. In other words, they've patented a mathematical formula for adjusting a drawing according to perspective... So in essence, all of us if we were to draw realisticly 3D images. I say this gets thrown out, quickly. I appriciate their sense of capitalism, but this is a silly case, and is an attempt to clamp down on ideas, which I consider to be higher than capitalism.
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2004-11-03, 7:47 PM #26
Lazy and greedy. Two traits that are all too common these days.
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2004-11-03, 8:16 PM #27
Quote:
Originally posted by Schming
I dont think it's gonna work. Where have they been for 16 years? In a cave in Afghanistan?


Haven't you heard? It's part of Bin Laden's ultimate plan to screw up the US economy. Duh!
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2004-11-03, 8:21 PM #28
Quote:
Originally posted by Sol

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2004-11-04, 12:49 PM #29
Patents are stupid because there is no such thing as an original idea.
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2004-11-04, 2:39 PM #30
Quote:
Originally posted by Master Tonberry
Patents are stupid because there is no such thing as an original idea.

Really? Where do you suppose all these ideas are coming from, if there's no such thing as an original idea?
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2004-11-04, 2:41 PM #31
Well, if Christians are correct, all things come from God so... maybe He should be sueing us for copyright infringment, no? :D
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2004-11-04, 2:45 PM #32
Quote:
Originally posted by SavageX378
Well, if Christians are correct, all things come from God so... maybe He should be sueing us for copyright infringment, no? :D

Then I guess "now don't you get any ideas" has an entirely new meaning, and we're all going to Hell, if that's the case.:p
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