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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..."

2 of 15 comments (clear)

  1. Hmmm.... by Soul-Burn666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    April's Fool is.... tmrw.

    Dang it... this is real.

    slashdot::rant.print();

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  2. Are Independent Journalists Being 'Executed'? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display_an y/3521