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Title: Amiga Patents
Post by: Pertinax on August 16, 2007, 06:35:25 PM

Following on from this:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-515585.html

Can anyone tell me exactly what the 47 patents are/were/for?

Is there a definitive list, or somewhere I can look them up?

Thanks

Jason

Title: Re: Amiga Patents
Post by: hamtronix on August 16, 2007, 06:45:44 PM

Look for the US Patent Website. You can do searches within its DB. I imagine you would have to look for whatever Amiga inc was operating as a business name under.

Title: Re: Amiga Patents
Post by: Doobrey on August 16, 2007, 07:37:19 PM

47 patents?
I guess some of them must have expired since that article was written.

USPTO search (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=an%2Famiga+and+isd%2F1%2F1%2F1987-%3E12%2F12%2F2007%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A&d=PTXT) for Amiga only comes up with 16, and half of those are assigned to 'Amiga Development LLC', which IIRC is still part of Gateway, dunno if the Gateway/Amino deal involved those patents?

Edit:
 Oops, silly me, there's another 9 assigned to Commodore Electronics Ltd. (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=an%2Fcommodore-electronics-%24+and+isd%2F1%2F1%2F1987-%3E12%2F12%2F2007%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A&d=PTXT)

Title: Re: Amiga Patents
Post by: murple on August 16, 2007, 08:20:20 PM

I suppose there could also be patents listed under Escom, but I'm not interested enough to hunt down 47 patents haha.