From kopete-devel  Mon Feb 07 09:34:23 2005
From: Josef Spillner <josef () ggzgamingzone ! org>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:34:23 +0000
To: kopete-devel
Subject: [kopete-devel] USPTO #6,699,125 revisited
Message-Id: <200502071034.27637.josef () ggzgamingzone ! org>
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Developers,

as you might have read on slashdot [1], Yahoo has filed for a patent of 
combining IM and games, called GameProwler [2], in 2001 and was granted the 
US patent 6,699,125 last year.

After reading through the claims, it seems that they are generic enough to 
apply to any potential games played over both Kopete and Gaim, regardless of 
the protocol.
The GGZ plugins which implement Kopete and Gaim gaming integration [3], have 
been developed some weeks ago. Thus, they seem to be infringing on the patent 
in question.

This is just to inform you that I'm informed about this issue already :-)
I'm not going to stop development - in fact, this is a prime example of stupid 
trivial patents, which I will use to help fighting the current IP enforcement 
brain damage in the US, Europe and other regions.

Josef
(FFII member for 2 years, KDE developer, and addicted to games)

[1] http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/02/06/2040208.shtml?tid=155&tid=10
[2] http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/games/play/play-23.html
[3] http://www.de.ggzgamingzone.org/screenshots/0.0.10/gaim.jpg

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