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If you ordered your starter set in Canada from Chapters, run, do not walk, to your mailbox and take a peek. You probably got it delivered today if you live in a major (or semi-major) urban center.

They are slipping back and forth between terms of art in Patent prosecution. Something that is known in the art is something that is well known in the field in question and does not need any definition or explanation. From my reading of the decision, the technique that was used had been in use...

And, in what is interesting timing, the US Supreme Court just ruled on software patents. http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/19/5824144/supreme-court-rules-software-patents-that-cover-abstract-ideas-are The case applies to banking software, but I expect that the USPTO will apply the reasoning to...

By law and precedent, the patent office, when interpreting the claims, must read them in the broadest way reasonably possible, whether it was intended by the applicant or not. If you look through the prosecution history, the initial set of claims could have been read to also encompass (IIRC, and...

The examiner at the USPTO does appear to have a pretty good grasp of the field, based on my reading of the documents (all of which are publicly available, BTW.) The lengthy, detailed reports by the examiner combined with the rather short, vague responses by the agent which really do not, to me...

Reddit pointed out that Bard's Tale II allowed the import of characters from Ultima 3 & Wizardry. As long as this was done without any input from the player, there is a nice little piece of prior art there that is quite likely novelty-destroying.

I wouldn't call these guys patent trolls. They are producing something (an RPG) that uses this mechanic that they are attempting to get patented. Patent Trolls, by definition, do not actually produce what the patent covers, and only use the patent as a source of revenue. These guys are, scale...

When did you create your converter? If it is before they filed and before their priority date, you may have invalidated their application.

Just a quick note from an actual (Canadian) patent examiner. The scope of what they are asking for is defined by the claims, and only the claims. As such, the way that I* read the claims is that it is directed towards a computer game or using a piece of computer software to translate a...

I would be willing to play. And thanks for the feedback on why my game died. I will think on it and look into how I could change it up a little bit.

If someone wants to run something. I am all for that. I looked over the game thread and am trying to figure out why it died...

Unfortunately, the game kinda died on the vine.

I would be interested in playing the scenario.

Checking your contacts, you find that Dedopovic is a lifer in the underworld economy. During the war, he started out as a member of rape squads. He rapidly moved up to wetwork and then, when it was found that we was reliable, to running rape and murder gangs in various parts of the country...

Pleae feel free to let me know (here or by PM, your choice) if you like or dislike how I presented the information to you guys in the game thread on possible directions to go and stuff to do. I have never DMed NBA face to face, let alone over a PbP, so there may be some feeling out of how to...

So, due to me losing track of time binging on Dr Who via Netflix (cried like a baby when The Dr and Rose said goodbye), the post is going up now instead of last night. Rudek, after seeing everyone agree to take the job, quickly obtains electronic banking information from all of the agents and...

@Piratecat is off-line until monday, so unless anyone has any strenuous objections, I will put it on hold until then. The next big post from me will come sometime over the weekend.

"Catch my dear. The term is catch. But, essentially yes." Rudek pauses for a moment. "Your employers believe in looking at the long-term plan. If you pay people $1000, you get effort worth $1000 which often results in many more thousands being spent after the fact. They would much rather...