Re: [Algorithms] pissing in the well [was: Collision detection pa tent]

[Sam M. <sa...@dn...>]

At 11:13 AM 8/16/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>> A practical example is Atari's patent on 'ghost cars' in racing games,
>which is still actively enforced.
>
>I never knew they patented that!  Amazing... and scary.  Does anyone have a
>link to this one?

I found this on the US Patent page:

http://patents.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?ENG+PATBIB-1976-2000+0+972113+4+3+3
18762+OF+98+291+51+atari

Not only that, but there's some other atari patents on there which I find
pretty hard to believe.  Look at this one:

http://patents.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?ENG+PATBIB-1976-2000+0+972113+4+4+7
4061+OF+69+291+51+atari

Any other examples of wacky patents??

-Sam
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