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| Harry Harris (Harry)
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Is the 3-colour 91-hex board in the public domain? Or is someone likely to claim rights over it? I am not sure who first came up with it...maybe Wellisch or??? I'd particularly be interested to know whether Glinksi's estate claim rights over it... Hoping it's in the public domain, | ||
| Matthew Burke (Morat)
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IANAL but I don't see how anyone could have ip rights over it. It's note patentable. And as far as copyright is concerned, you could copyright a particular _image_ but you can't copyright the concept. | ||
| Harry Harris (Harry)
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IANAL either but why would it not be patentable? There are some US patents concerning hexagonal chess. Roger Penrose even patented two pairs of tessellating quadrilaterals!  Harry | ||
| David J Bush (Twixter)
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Wrenching the thread off topic: IANAL? I am never always ludicrous I am not absolutely lyrical I always nap at lunch It's a non-average llama I anal Invoking amplified negativity always loses I ate nine anchovy lasagnas | ||
| Matthew Burke (Morat)
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IANAL - I am not a lawyer I would guess it's not patentable for several reasons. I know there are some hex chess patents, I am assuming Harry is asking whether or not it's possible to use a particular design for a board so I don't think the other patents would apply. I think it would fail the non-obvious test also. | ||
| Harry Harris (Harry)
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I'd be interested to hear of any commercial products that use a 3-coloured 91-hex board. Off-topic: how Penrose enforced his patent against Kleenex when they used tessellated Penrose rhombuses on toilet paper: http://plus.maths.org/issue16/features/penrose/ Best regards, Harry |