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I don't know much about patents, but let's say Farmville (although Zynga own it, assume they don't) decided to add some sort of betting element to their game, w
by citricsquid 16y ago
I don't know much about patents, but let's say Farmville (although Zynga own it, assume they don't) decided to add some sort of betting element to their game, would that not make it a "gambling game" and therefore infringe on any patents against it?
While it might not affect all pre-existing social games, if the above is true then it limits what they can do with their game.
- DisposaBoy 16y agoI'm not sure how your first point applies here. If I get a patent for copy-paste using gestures, does my patent apply to using a mouse or any future copy-paste methods? Maybe, maybe not, it doesn't actually matter here because those methods don't exist yet so talking about them is irrelevant as I tried to point out. If you read the whole of my comment you'd see that I went as far as to suggest the patent itself is most likely invalid.