Three Moves Ahead 114: Patents, Progress, and Rogue Puffins - a podcast by Idle Thumbs

Gamers With Jobs continues colonizing 3MA, but the natives still welcome Cory Banks because he brings whiskey and podcast topics. Fantasy Flight games is upset about an iOS game that bears a significant resemblance to Richard Borg's Command&Colors system, and Bruce, Cory, and Rob wonder what it all means. Before they reveal themselves as ignoramuses yet again,William Flachsbart, intellectual property expert, arrives to tell them what it all means. How carefully must new products tread around the innovations of old ones? When does borrowing mechanics turn into theft? Is there any way we can send Troy to jail? What about the Vancouver Canucks?
Here is Bill Abner's originalNo High Scoresstory, and theinterviewto which Wil is referring in this episode.
Big thanks toMichael Hermesfor helping us sort out numerous audio problems this week.

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