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

[Tom F. <to...@mu...>]

That second one is for Gauntlet of course. A great game, but patentable?
Then again, these are the people who patented the concept of a register that
scrolls the screen left by the value you write into it.

Tom Forsyth - Muckyfoot bloke.
Whizzing and pasting and pooting through the day.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam McGrath [mailto:sa...@dn...]
> Sent: 16 August 2000 11:49
> To: gda...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Algorithms] pissing in the well [was: Collision 
> detection
> pa tent]
> 
> 
> 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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