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Re: Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll

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But what happens when they don't have a legal entity in the US? Who will enforce it?

They can stop the distribution in the United Stares. In addition, Swedish courts would probably honor the decision of the US court.

Stop distribution? With what, magic? Hasn't everyone learned by now that you can't stop distribution of digital data?

Re: Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can stop the distribution in the United Stares. In addition, Swedish courts would probably honor the decision of the US court.

How would that be enforced for a download-only product? Also, there is another famous swedish operation which still hasn't been shut down despite enormous efforts by US firms. edit: ok, any app store downloads probably could be shut down.

Domain seizure?

Re: Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can stop the distribution in the United Stares. In addition, Swedish courts would probably honor the decision of the US court.

Stop distribution? With what, magic? Hasn't everyone learned by now that you can't stop distribution of digital data?

You can never stop the determined. But the courts could certainly pull the app from the Android store.

Re: Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll

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The patent is here: http://www.google.com/patents/US6857067?printsec=abstract#v=... I'd encourage you all to read it. The majority of the summary, related art and claims are related to "smart cards". That is: a user plugs a smart card into their computer, which has one half of a licence key on it, and it then verifies this with a server either over LAN or the web. There are a couple of broad claims which could, if up…

Does anybody know where to report prior art. The US announced they were going to use CAC(common access cards) for security in 2000. CACs are smart cards you have to use to log in to military websites among other things.

Re: Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll

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The patent is here: http://www.google.com/patents/US6857067?printsec=abstract#v=... I'd encourage you all to read it. The majority of the summary, related art and claims are related to "smart cards". That is: a user plugs a smart card into their computer, which has one half of a licence key on it, and it then verifies this with a server either over LAN or the web. There are a couple of broad claims which could, if up…

Does anybody know where to report prior art. The US announced they were going to use CAC(common access cards) for security in 2000. CACs are smart cards you have to use to log in to military websites among other things.

Sorry, I made a mistake in my summary: the patent was granted in '05 but filed in 2001.

Re: Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll

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The patent is here: http://www.google.com/patents/US6857067?printsec=abstract#v=... I'd encourage you all to read it. The majority of the summary, related art and claims are related to "smart cards". That is: a user plugs a smart card into their computer, which has one half of a licence key on it, and it then verifies this with a server either over LAN or the web. There are a couple of broad claims which could, if up…

Does anybody know where to report prior art. The US announced they were going to use CAC(common access cards) for security in 2000. CACs are smart cards you have to use to log in to military websites among other things.

Sending this to Mojang wouldn't hurt.

Re: Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll

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The patent is here: http://www.google.com/patents/US6857067?printsec=abstract#v=... I'd encourage you all to read it. The majority of the summary, related art and claims are related to "smart cards". That is: a user plugs a smart card into their computer, which has one half of a licence key on it, and it then verifies this with a server either over LAN or the web. There are a couple of broad claims which could, if up…

Does anybody know where to report prior art. The US announced they were going to use CAC(common access cards) for security in 2000. CACs are smart cards you have to use to log in to military websites among other things.

Here are some I've bookmarked:

https://www.eff.org/patent-busting

Crowd-sourced prior art patent busting:

http://www.articleonepartners.com/

There's also PeerToPatent, but it appears to be oriented toward preventing a patent being granted than busting them after the fact:

http://peertopatent.org/

Re: Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll

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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC DATA. When are governments finally going to do something about the patent system?

When are people going to start reading more than just patent titles? This specific system and method involve using a card inserted into a computing device paired with a server over a network for authentication. It goes deeper than just the title.

No it doesn't involve that at all. Please read independent claim 1, not the abstract or the description.

Re: Mojang, makers of Minecraft, sued by patent troll

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The patent is here: http://www.google.com/patents/US6857067?printsec=abstract#v=... I'd encourage you all to read it. The majority of the summary, related art and claims are related to "smart cards". That is: a user plugs a smart card into their computer, which has one half of a licence key on it, and it then verifies this with a server either over LAN or the web. There are a couple of broad claims which could, if up…

While you may be correct that the system was designed for/with/about smart cards, none of the claims relate specifically to smart cards, and are quite broad. Stay out of the summary, description, and abstract when reading a patent, and just skip to the claims. Read the independent claims (the ones that don't start with "the .... according to claim X").

If you find that there are reasonable definitions of each term in the claim that you might fall under, you are gonna have a bad time.

(IE Spend a lot of money trying to get it invalidated)

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