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- From: keving@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Kevin Gong)
- Subject: Re: Game of pentominos
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.190233.28969@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:02:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.153642.6932@odin.diku.dk> torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen) writes:
- >umatf071@unibi.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (sio) writes:
- >...
- >Does this mean that a company produces a game based on the 29 possible
- >figures made from 5 cubes? If so, do they have copyright to the actual
- >shape of the pieces? I find it doubtful that such a claim would hold,
- >as the shapes are of mathematical nature and thus not copyrightable.
- >Any rules for the game will be copyrightable though.
-
- Well, I don't know about pentacubes, but "pentomino" is a registered
- trademark of Solomon Golomb! That seems sort of strange to me, but hey,
- I guess he invented the word.
-
- - kevin
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