Computer Solitaire Patented?

Posted by CowboyNeal on Tuesday February 3, 2004 @04:32AM from the euchre-and-cribbage-proceed-with-caution dept.

Sadburger writes "Saw this over on GameDev: 'Thomas Warfield of Pretty Good Solitaire is reporting in his most recent blog that: 'My company has received the following letter from a law firm claiming to have a client that has patented computer solitaire. And by extension, all computer card games. I am not kidding.' Patent law strikes again...' Anyone know a good patent lawyer?" Someone alert the educational sector, since at least half my programming classes involved solitaire, poker, or blackjack.

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Re:Maybe the patent office never heard of Wes Cher by Lemmeoutada+Collecti · 2004-02-03 05:10 · Score: 5, Informative

I used to run Solitaire (Hoyle) on my Tandy 1000 SL/2 with Hard Drive kit. Back in the 80's. And before that, I had Sol on a TRD 80 Model II on the 8" floppy. Talk about prior art, I think there was a version for the VAX.

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