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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/Future of FRC - Sneak Peek
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Originally Posted by 1075guy
I'm going to venture out on a limb and suggest that IFI would have a VERY hard time trying to make a patent on 802.11 as a means of controlling robots enforceable. It depends entirely upon your definition of a robot, and anyone else doing it, could simply say it was communicating to another computer (RC is a computer, which controls the robot). Problem solved.
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I think IFI, if they wanted to, would have been smart enough to make it more specific and figure out any loopholes that they might have in their patent application.
If they wanted to block out FIRST from using the technology they helped develop/produce, I'm sure they would have taken every necessary step and made sure everything was very in depth in description.
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