Comments on: PurePlay’s Patented Legal Hack http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/10/30/pureplays-patented-legal-hack/ Prediction Markets, etc. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:13:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bradley hodges http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/10/30/pureplays-patented-legal-hack/#comment-19695 bradley hodges Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:36:31 +0000 http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/10/30/pureplays-patented-legal-hack/#comment-19695 they ripped me off i won a bunch of tournaments and never received any money they ripped me off i won a bunch of tournaments and never received any money

]]> By: Michael Giberson http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/10/30/pureplays-patented-legal-hack/#comment-16440 Michael Giberson Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:13:17 +0000 http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/10/30/pureplays-patented-legal-hack/#comment-16440 I have absolutely no experience with patent law, so I can't answer Tom's questions. But it seems to me that a real-money prediction exchange using a similar model might operate a trading accounting system which is distinguishable from a "game server computer" host. A game server computer would itself contain the whole world of the game -- records, luck elements, and all -- while a trading accounting system that a prediction market sets up would maintain the set of accounts related to participants, but the payoffs would arise from things happening outside of the accounting system. I have absolutely no experience with patent law, so I can’t answer Tom’s questions.

But it seems to me that a real-money prediction exchange using a similar model might operate a trading accounting system which is distinguishable from a “game server computer” host.

A game server computer would itself contain the whole world of the game — records, luck elements, and all — while a trading accounting system that a prediction market sets up would maintain the set of accounts related to participants, but the payoffs would arise from things happening outside of the accounting system.

]]> By: Tom W. Bell http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/10/30/pureplays-patented-legal-hack/#comment-16439 Tom W. Bell Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:41:29 +0000 http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/10/30/pureplays-patented-legal-hack/#comment-16439 I should think so. That leads to the next questions: Would PurePlay's patent bar the planned use? If so, is that patent valid, or would PurePlay license the use? I should think so. That leads to the next questions: Would PurePlay’s patent bar the planned use? If so, is that patent valid, or would PurePlay license the use?

]]> By: Chris. F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/10/30/pureplays-patented-legal-hack/#comment-16438 Chris. F. Masse Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:33:41 +0000 http://www.midasoracle.org/2007/10/30/pureplays-patented-legal-hack/#comment-16438 And the next question is, "Would a US-based real-money prediction exchange find it interesting to use this model?". And the next question is, “Would a US-based real-money prediction exchange find it interesting to use this model?”.

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