Here.
Apparently, someone filed a patent in '96 that describes how multiple users could interact in a dynamic 3-D space. & apparently that's enough to file a lawsuit.
The thing that kills this should be that if you're filing suit about someone violating your design of MMOGs, shouldn't you go after the most obvious target first?
NC Soft hit by patent lawsuit
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thibodeaux
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowcrash
Robert Heinlein claimed that the waterbed wasn't patentable because he had described it in Stranger in a Strange Land. But who knows what those patent fools will grant these days.
Robert Heinlein claimed that the waterbed wasn't patentable because he had described it in Stranger in a Strange Land. But who knows what those patent fools will grant these days.