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Subject: 
Patent pending
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 1 Dec 1998 17:04:47 GMT
Original-From: 
Brian Stormont <brian@/antispam/projo.com>
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Kekoa Proudfoot wrote:

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.

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 which says I may not copy the Documentation (assuming the
License Agreement is part of the documentation).   ;-)

-brian



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  Re: Patent pending
 
(...) Note 1: a patent application doesn't "protect" anything. It simply informs people that an application for a patent has been made which may or may not actually be granted. It doesn't prevent anyone from doing anything, but if the patent IS (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) Where did you see that? It didn't catch my eye. -Kekoa (26 years ago, 30-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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