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Originally Posted by Hachima  Yeah I wonder what the actual patent covers too. It seems too easy to show there was prior work that did stuff similar depending on when the patent was made. 1995 for 3D mmo type games, and years before that for online MUD games. |
"Similar" isn't enough. I won't go into a big patent lecture here but suffice to say that if there were really obvious prior art it would be brought out by the patent examiner, and if the examiner missed it, it will be brought out by the defendants in the infringement suit. You guys armchair lawyering deciding what is and isn't prior art is mental masturbation of the worst kind.
