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JB:
--- Quote from: elvis on September 01, 2005, 10:06:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: xonix_digital on September 01, 2005, 11:30:48 am ---So what do we do? Where do we go from here?
I can't be letting a money-hungry company take over OUR industry.
Lets start writing emails to the president!!! ;D
-=XD=-
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I assume that post was made in total sarcasm. At least I hope it was.
Your president (and most of his family) are board members of a dozen of the world's most money hungry bastard corporations, all of which are extremely pro US-style IP/patents/copyright (even trying to enforce that rubbish on other countries that they do business in, despite having no political presence). I seriously doubt they give a flying turd about any of us and our concerns.
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I would've made a less politically-charged argument. The president isn't involved in the day-to-day workings of the patent office. He has no say in whether patents are granted or dismissed.
E-mails should be directed to someone in the patent&trademarks office.
elvis:
Heh, yes it does. :)
On topic: as already mentioned, the Quasimoto above could only apply a patent if it did something different to every other arcade system out there. And then it would only be able to use that patent to demand royalties on anyone else who did that one particular thing.
From this page:
http://www.quasimoto.com/direct.html
"Patented control electronics".
I can't see anything new on their CP:
http://www.quasimoto.com/images/qcon_f.jpg
The patent application (linked from above) seems to claim that they are the first people to put a game console in a cabinet. All of us here know that's absolute shite. As far as I'm aware, US cabinet builders should all start writing letters stating exactly what they do, and what products they sell, and how long they've been doing it for. You would *HOPE* that the patent office is competant enough to be able ot search the market for pre-existing examples of this sort of thing, but I don't doubt that an ancient paper-based system probably wouldn't even know what google was if it bit them on the arse.
Patent Doc: what are the steps one needs to take from here to get in contact with the USPTO and make their counter-claims heard?
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