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Re:Win a soccer game by more than five points and you lose on Thursday June 03, 2010 @04:35PM (#1402456)

Awesome. I wish more opportunities for exploits like this would open in sports, the games would take some interesting intellectual twists. Oh wait, we're playing calvinball.

Ultimate frisbee captains can, I believe, agree on any subset of rules before a game begins. The inclusion and use of dodgeballs on the field was one modification of note.

Re:Ask HN: Just found a patent covering my project, anything I can do? on Thursday June 03, 2010 @04:28PM (#1402439)

Great comments, thanks. You and others have pointed out the need for an expert in IP, which I agree with. I will try my university and then maybe consider other advisors.

Re:Ask HN: Just found a patent covering my project, anything I can do? on Thursday June 03, 2010 @04:21PM (#1402414)

That's an option I'd forgotten, thanks.

Of course. Hah, but also consider this is HN, not the internet proper.

Ask HN: Just found a patent covering my project, anything I can do?

Posted by brazo on Thursday June 03, 2010 @11:58AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've been working on a sensor system that solved a problem we had at school. I designed the hardware, wrote the firmware, and am now building a small webapp for handling the incoming data. It seems to solve other people's problems too so there was some interest in developing a business around the idea. Recently I found out the concept of the sensor system is covered by a rather broad patent...

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