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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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Patents are pretty complicated documents. I have my name on a couple, and it confused the heck out of me the few times I was involved. There is a lot of room in the patent to cover up the "loopholes", not to say that there aren't any, but it appears that IFI has 3 patents on this kind of thing, so I am willing to bet they have a lot of those holes covered up.
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