[Flightgear-devel] Patent applied for!

2001-11-21 Thread Mally
Not sure if this is appropriate to be posted here, so apologies in advance if it isn't: You may be interested to know that Peter Tishma (aka Papa Tango) has applied to patent the concept of a flight simulator. At least that's how the patent application reads to me, and apparently also to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patent applied for!

2001-11-21 Thread Mally
Richard wrote: OK - I have had a look at the patent. (Yo-yo connection today) The last page is the most interesting, it gives the search report. In summary, it gives 5 examples indicating a lack of inventive step - which implies that it is unlikely to be granted (IMHO). Funny that 3 of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patent applied for!

2001-11-21 Thread Mally
David writes: Mally writes: You may be interested to know that Peter Tishma (aka Papa Tango) has applied to patent the concept of a flight simulator. At least that's how the patent application reads to me, and apparently also to the avsim.com newsdesk, who've put the story on their

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patent applied for!

2001-11-21 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.11.21 10:57]: OK - I have had a look at the patent. (Yo-yo connection today) The last page is the most interesting, it gives the search report. In summary, it gives 5 examples indicating a lack of inventive step - which implies that it is unlikely to be granted

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patent applied for!

2001-11-21 Thread Mally
Cameron Any chance you could get the docs in a Linux-compatible format? I went to check this out and all I would find was some Win32 .EXEs. Thanks I'm not sure you were on the right page. You should have ended up with 5 different Adobe Acrobat .pdf pages. If you can't get to them, I'll

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patent applied for!

2001-11-21 Thread Mally
David F wrote: Prior Art!! What he is trying to patent has been around for years before he even started Papa Tango. Flame him You're probably already aware that PT's prior skirmish with the flight sim community resulted in a Boycott Papa Tango campaign, but that didn't hurt him