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This is gonna get uniloc a LOT of hate from the millions of minecrafters
they have what 2 or 3 fans? joke but this will get them tons of hate

Thank You Urban Dictionary for this wonderful explination of Mindcraft

MindCraft
a boner mindcrafted on mindcraft and it is huge and has a smiley face on the head of the boner and it's huge.

Invalidate the 6857067 patent with 5553143 (Ross).
Sorry I haven't been able to make a proper argument with citations, but it should all be there. I'll look for more tomorrow.

inre assaultmaster post #507: the specification doesn't matter. Claim 107 doesn't comprise a smart card. This '067 patent application should have been restricted as genus/species.

Also, it can be argued that the '067 patent is no longer valid under 35 USC 101, but I'm not sure if that ruling is retroactive. Code is not necessarily non-transient or tangible.

- your friendly neighborhood IP professional

I like how Wikipedia, at the bottom of the Uniloc page says "See also: Patent Troll"

I looked up the said patent info and it shows Edelman; Martin S as the inventor not the "Uniloc" company. so Fail.. here is a link to the patent for anyone interested

http://patft.uspto.g...RS=PN/6,857,067

It's flipping amizeing. 27 pages deep and yet they keep pointing out it's spelled wrong.

And this must be the 4th or 5th post pointing out that we all know it's spelt wrong.

Thank the gods that grammar Nazi's don't rule the world. We would all be shot.

Ok, so reading through the suit, and the patent ... something something portable licensing medium something something smart card something something authenticate license. I have come to the conclusion that it has to do with Minecraft PE, being sold on Android OS phones. Therefore, shouldn't it be Google Play (formerly known as Android Market) that have the problem ? Mojang only developed the software, and it is provided by Google Play. Don't Google Play do the authenticating ?

Hahaha, they called it Mindcraft.

Very interesting post: http://blog.patentology.com.au/2012/07/ric-richardson-im-no-troll-were-not-so.html

How can this be even a real lawsuit, they ****ing misspelled the name of the game Minecraft on 3rd page, writing it as "Mindcraft". What does this company of assholes want, if they misspell a name of the game which they are law suiting Mojang for, seems like a bunch of ******** idiots which want to get easy money for being dicks.

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How can this be even a real lawsuit, they ****ing misspelled the name of the game Minecraft on 3rd page, writing it as "Mindcraft". What does this company of assholes want, if they misspell a name of the game which they are law suiting Mojang for, seems like a bunch of ******** idiots which want to get easy money for being dicks.

Profanity doesn't help your argument, but I feel ya.
Also... "Non-Premium"? Is that some fancy term for pirated? You are pirating Minecraft and you are complaining about a lawsuit against Mojang?

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The Bolded pretty much sums it up.

You are pretty much ignoring my point there, that you are trying to be a **** who is complaining that an asshole like you has wasted 25 dollars for using the Mojang's users, servers and launcher to play Minecraft, when there are better ways which are free and are not technically pirated. Furthermore, I am not spending my life reading posts and responding to them to simply start a flame war, I am responding to a person which is accusing me of pirating Minecraft, when that is impossible as they have their own login servers which will not allow anybody to play Minecraft if they do not login. Also, bolded text neither gives any strength to your point, you are simply outlining your text from the rest of other people, trying to show how superior you are over other people thinking *hahaha my text is fatter than theirs, it must be better*.

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Did you just confuse china and japan? That is bad, really bad.

@everyone: Please calm down. There is no need to get violent in any way. Stop trolling Ric Richardson, stop trolling at all. Minecraft is a game of creativity. Create minecraft figures or create a meme - do something intellectual! Think of something funny, instead of babbling all about the same typo. The typo may show, that uniloc has no specific interest in mojangs so called infringement, but only in money. Which is obviously nothing new.

I did not confuse China and Japan. It happens in both countries.

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That's the thing, They did! If you observe a spell check of Minecraft, one of the options I have seen before is "Mindcraft".
Even though this entire thing is a load of crap. You do have to know and respect that as fans, we are not allowed into the courtroom. We can hope and cheer, but not assist.
That does raise a thought, what if the jury has people who play Minecraft?

I don't think it is likely that the jury will consist of minecraft players because generally, in corporate lawsuits, the jury is a select group of people. And plus, any minecraft player would be biased anyway. And since the lawsuit is over a slight fragment of code that the players don't see, it wouldn't really help that much.

Very interesting post: http://blog.patentol...ere-not-so.html

That is a very interesting post... It just leads me to believe that we all shouldn't say or believe anything too fervently until we know for sure what the situation is. Misinformation seems to cocoon cases like this, and that last thing I want to do is base a strong opinion on weak facts...

I have an idea: Let's find a way to open a portal to Minecraft, use a mind-control mod to control an army of creepers, and send 'em to Uniloc's headquarters. Or better, release the Ender Dragon.

Idea #2: Get Godzilla Jr from the animated show Godzilla the Series and have him rip stuff apart.

I went through the Lawsuit PDF, and it doesn't look like Mojang is going to win this one, unfortunately Uniloc or whatever it's called has rather strong case of copyright infringement unlike Bethesda. Bethesda wanted to stay on the safe side because the own the the copyrighted title "The Elder Scrolls" and Mojang creating a game called "Scrolls" does Infingement the copyright, but Bethesda wasn't attacking Mojang, they were protecting themselves from future situations I.E. a company creates a series called "The Elder Trolls", if Mojang had allowed a game called scrolls to go unrecognized, the company that created "The Elder Trolls" would a have an extremely strong case to defend themselves against Bethesda, when they would sue. . I wish the best for Mojang and Notch, they are going to need it unlike the Bethesda Lawsuit involving scrolls.

Wait, so Uniloc owns the *Idea* of having software that needs to contact a server to determine if a copy of software is legal or not?
Because that's what I get from this, it seems to state that Patent 067 in fact is a patent stateing that Uniloc owns an idea.

This makes no sense, I always thought that you could in fact not claim legal rights to an *idea* only just a certain copy of whatever that idea created.

As an example, it was the same with the Bethesda lawsuit. They wanted to sue over a word mainly due to the fact that it might "confuse" people.

It has been my understanding that if you own a patent to a certain type of software, that patent only deals with the software it's self and not what the software does.

Can anyone clarify this?

Mindcraft, does it mean that it will nullify the case eventually?