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From: Gary Conroy
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 00:00

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What makes you think that the chip for which the patent applies is a
released product?  Just because the patent exists doesn't mean the product
has been released.  The patent could apply to Banshee, or any other future
chips from 3DFX.

I haven't read the complaint or the patent, but the 3DFX suit is more likely
based on implementation than concept.

just my $.02

Gary

Jeff Atwood wrote in message <360a0554.0@news.mti.net>...
>Multitexture is a concept. You can't patent concepts, for God's sake. I
have
>a hard time believing that a single-chip multitexture implementation is
that
>similar to a multiple-chip implementation.
>
>Jeff

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