Yeah, reading the 2 primary claims, I can't believe this patent could possibly stand up to a challenge. It attempts to claim any 2-or-more player video game or world, with players on different computers. Supposedly the examiner compared it to a list of a hundred similar patents and found some difference.
Just looking at Minecraft should have been enough to toss it out, let alone Second Life and Open Sim. I'm not a patent attorney, but I do have one patent and read quite a bit when I applied for it and went through all that. This one is fluff. There's been a lot of fluff lately. The first time they try to sue anyone for infringement they'll find out. Or maybe they hope they'll get $10,000 per client to just "go away." First impression though, is that the patent examiner should be fired. On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:09 PM, BoneZ <[email protected]> wrote: > This seems to include many aspects of what opensim already does.... > https://www.google.com/patents/US8621368?dq=new+ > world+studio+patent&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WCGiU66BGcTvoAS7sYHQDw&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg > > Anyone know anything about this?? > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > -- R. Wade Schuette, CDP, MBA, MPH 698 Monterey Ave Morro Bay CA 93442 cell: 1 (734) 635-0508 fax: 1 (734) 864-0318 [email protected]
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