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Article #75304Re: headline: Nintendo battles alteration gadget
From: Steve Peltz
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 1990 21:34
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 1990 21:34
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Nintendo is also being sued (or was being sued, they may have settled by now) for patent infringement. I think, coincidentally, the game in question was Super Mario Brothers. The patent issue involved had to do with detecting when two objects were in the same location on the screen and doing some action when that occurred. I don't have any other information; what I have is from talking to a lawyer from Nintendo who was trying to find examples of prior art in some of the games on our system. -- Steve Peltz Internet: peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu PLATO/NovaNET: peltz/s/cerl
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,4bccf8d30c07f635 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-08-17 17:45:17 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!peltz From: peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: headline: Nintendo battles alteration gadget Message-ID: <1990Aug17.213447.22502@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 17 Aug 90 21:34:47 GMT References: <BOB.90Aug13182016@volitans.MorningStar.Com> <3165@awdprime.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Distribution: gnu Organization: UIUC Computer-based Education Research Lab Lines: 13 Posted: Fri Aug 17 22:34:47 1990