Re: [piecepack] Andy Looney changes his mind

[Prophesor <prophesor@...>]

--- Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...> wrote:
> This afternoon Andy told me he now thinks that piecepack
> pyramids
> DON'T infringe on his patent.  He said he didn't realise that
> piecepack pyramids are all the same colour, and he was going
> to revise
> his essay.

So then he wrote the original essay without ever seeing the
piecepack pyramids pdf?  Outstanding.

I have to say (not that my opinion matters to anybody,
particularly anyone with a patent or three..) , I think that if
sombeody came along with a pdf that folded up into little
colored pyramids, Andy'd have a cause, if not a case.  And maybe
a case, too; I'm no legal well of Mimir.

But a pyramid that amounts to a piecepack tile deformed in space
is still a piecepack tile.  IMHO.

And lest anyone think I'm bashing, I love my Icehouse set.  The
realtime shoot/barricade game, whatever its name is, is one
reason why fold-up paper anything just can't replace the quality
of the actual little plastic pieces.



> Revisiting his article, I can now see it reads, "Would such
> pyramids
> infringe on our patent? It's debatable."  instead of "Do I
> think such
> pyramids would infringe on my patent?  Yes.".

http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Games/PatentsAndLawsuits.html

> I guess that's progress...
> 
> Ron

I wonder how he'll feel when he actually looks at the pdf? 
Until he has, he's just wasting everybody's time, and possibly
rattling a little sabre for good measure.



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