Forum Overview :: Doom III :: Re: Carmack's Reverse: PATENT INFRINGEMENT

[quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="Umberto's Cock news feed"]<a href="http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/07/28/1529222.shtml?tid=204&tid=155" target="1">http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/07/28/1529222.shtml?tid=204&tid=155</a> [quote name="Carmack"]The patent situation well and truly sucks... It was tempting to take a stand and say that our products were never going to use any advanced Creative/3DLabs products because of their position on patenting gaming software algorithms, but that would only have hurt the users...[/quote][/quote] In Spider-Man, the scientist called the spiders "genetically designed" . . . if Parker has their DNA in him, does that mean he can be sued for patent infringement?[/quote]