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| | | (...) I forced myself to read some more claims in the patent last night. Yuck! Look at claim number 19. They seem to be attempting to patent fetching parts on the fly over the internet. Something has to be done about this foolishness! How old is the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Lego patent issued —Erik Olson
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| | | | | A better example would be a model which references a subfile on the plane of an open hinge. The crux of the patent is transformation of a coordinate system. Specifically an integer grid coordinate system. CAR.DAT doesn't have anything like that (the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: Lego patent issued —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | | (...) Well the integer coordinate system isn't forced on CAR.DAT, unless you want the parts to line up. Isn't the LDRAW stud spacing a published integer grid coordinate system used to position geometric (part) objects which are defined in a floating (...) (22 years ago, 4-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Lego patent issued —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | | | | | "Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H1xFC4.Ex1@lugnet.com... (...) Yes. (...) Yes. I released version 1.1 1998-July-16 (That's as far back as my own posting archive goes), so the 0.9 version should be from at least (...) (22 years ago, 4-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: Lego patent issued —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Good thing MPDs existed before 1999, then. :) Steve (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Lego patent issued —Erik Olson
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| | | | From the "prior art" section, the discussion of "what a skilled practitioner in the art would know as VRML" is unbelievable. I wonder if the writer made these claims in ignorance of the process that became VRML97, or was not even passably familiar (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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