Of course he does, particularly with xGen going commercial. He sued Disney over it and won an undisclosed settlement (it's not on record whether it's royalties or a flat payment). http://patentexaminer.org/2011/10/disney-sued-for-infringing-virtual-hair-raising-patent/
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Nick Angus <[email protected]> wrote: > I am sure he still makes money from it with that obscure little patent he > holds... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Gardner > Sent: Saturday, 10 August 2013 7:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Maya Xgen > > It beats having to pay Joe Alter for the privilege of having decent > grooming tools... > > the xgen demo looks to be *ahem* a cut above shave's tools. (sorry) > > cheers, > chrisg > > On 10 August 2013 15:22, Eric Lampi <[email protected]> wrote: > > This just came across my feed on Facebook. It's so damned annoying to > > see them make a huge deal out of this kind of pedestrian crap. OK the > > hair stuff was nice, but is anyone really that impressed with a hair > > styling tool? Exactly how often do you say to yourself "Oh no!! How am > > I ever going to style the hair on these ALL of these characters!!??" > > -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
