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Welwyn Garden City, Herts

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Presumably the WotC patents on their card game mechanics will run out after 20 years, which must be about now as the game was published in 1993 if I remember correctly.


http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5662332

Filing Date 17th October 1995

According to wiki (which is where ALL my legal research is done )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_of_patent_in_the_United_States

It runs out 20 years after filing date, so 17th Oct 2015 unless there's other rules that my indepth research didn't turn up.
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 oni wrote:
Well, if the guy that started Dumb Starbucks can get away with copying Starbucks to a T and legalize the whole thing simply by placing the word "dumb" in front of everything... Then what hope does WotC have?

I'm not making this up, this is not a hoax. Dumb Starbucks is real thing.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/02/10/dumb-starbucks-parody-free-coffee/5357597/



Not a thing anymore - it was some sort of comedy hoax thing and got shut down by Health and Saftey types:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/dumb-starbucks-shut-health-inspectors-article-1.1609947
 
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