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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:14 pm
by Malcolm
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?

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:17 pm
by thibodeaux
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.