"Amiga" patents - what are they?

[Morley]

See thread title.

I'm thinking about the original Amiga patents and/or intellectual property coming from the original Commodore bankruptcy...

What exact areas does the patents cover? Anybody know? I tried googling but nowhere did I find anything useful - apart from some DMA patent from the late 80s.

This is purely out of curiosity - since everytime the Amiga intellectual property/patents have switched hands they have been "spoken highly" of.

[Morley]

Worthless

That is also my thought, but it would be interesting to know what exactly they have/had...purely out of curiosity.

There has been so much talk about these patents, but nowhere can we find what they are about.

[Morley]

Hmm...I don't really care so much about the legal status or whether or not I'm allowed to use the patents, since I'm not at all considering cloning/building anything.

This is just plain curiosity. (Maybe the exact details are not out there in the public since it really is worth nada - while Amiga Inc. is pretending they are sitting on gold.)

[Morley]

Voila!

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%0D%0A&d=PTXT

This is just some of the patents from Commodore/Amiga.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PTXT&RS=AN%2Famiga&Refine=Refine+Search&Refine=Refine+Search&Query=an%2Fcommodore

More, this time using Commodore as assignee, ignore the first results...