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Palm Sued Over Multiplayer PDA Games Patent

Posted by timothy on from the shame-is-free-but-rare dept.

Dr. Manhattan writes "Palm, along with several other companies, are being sued by Peer-to-Peer Systems LLC pursuant to patent 5,618,045. Seems that "an interactive multiple player game system including at least two playing devices communicating over an ad-hoc, wireless, all-to-all broadcast network" is not 'obvious.' Dang, I was planning on writing one..."

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  1. Re:Hmmm by GrassyKnowl · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Looks like there are a bunch of programs played over packet radio that would invalidate the patent:

    from:

    http://www.cobrasoft.tmfweb.nl/download.htm

    PAKCHESS.ZIP

    PR4OPRIJ.ZIP

    PSB.ZIP

    These programs are dated 1992/1993