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Re: legOS
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 30 Nov 1998 23:00:35 GMT
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George McBay <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote:
> One other thing that did catch my eye though, was the claim of a patent
> pending on the IR communication system the RCX uses....
Where did you see that? It didn't catch my eye.
-Kekoa
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 | | Re: legOS
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| Kekoa Proudfoot wrote in message ... (...) Oh, I forgot to comment on this. Companies are patent crazy, if it's not done the "usual" way, they'll try to patent it, EVEN IF IT SEEMS LIKE ANYONE COULD FIGURE IT OUT. The IR transmission is a bit (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Patent pending
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| (...) Here's the exact patent text from my license agreement (found under III. Title): The communications protocol is protected by a pending patent application. That's it, in it's entirety. Now we can discuss whether I violated the License Agreement (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: legOS
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| The included end-user licence agreements that came with Mindstorms had dire warnings about the illegality of reverse engineering the product in any way. These types of 'agreements', to my knowledge, aren't ever really challenged by the companies who (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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