Comments on: A patent on a poker game?

Ocean Tomo will sell off a poker game patent later this month at its intellectual property auction in Chicago.

[MSSlayer]

More proof

That software patents are out of control. These patent trolls are just hanging themselves.

Copyright is all that is needed to protect programs.

[sanenazok]

Proof tends to uhm prove

What does the sale of a game have to do with software patents? If you looked at this patent actually you would know it's for a method of playing a poker game and not for software*. I guess you jumped to conclusions because it's played on a computer. Also how does the sale of the game "prove" that software patents are out of control.

Just trying to figure it out.

*It's not entirely your fault since C|Net has the patent number wrong. It's not 7,000,953 but rather 7,007,953.

[sanenazok]

Patent Number is Wrong

Don't mean to gripe unnecessarily but in looking this over I found that the poker patent reg. no is 7,007,953 not 7,000,953 that's listed in the story.

Just in case someone's interested in looking at the actual patent...

[wylbur]

I got that for a birthday present

in 1979, a plastic holder for playing that very idea, maybe it was
with seven by seven cards.