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Patent pending
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Tue, 1 Dec 1998 17:04:47 GMT
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Brian Stormont <brian@projo.#spamless#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....
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> 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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| (...) 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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