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It could be that they were anticipating filing this patent and they didn't want to publicly disclose the "new" methods they were working on. My understanding is
by vlmutolo 5y ago
It could be that they were anticipating filing this patent and they didn't want to publicly disclose the "new" methods they were working on. My understanding is that public disclosure prevents you from being able to patent something. (I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice).
- kevingadd 5y agoAll sorts of products ship with 'patent pending' written on them. "Trade secret" doesn't mean that you lose it if someone finds out about it
- timmytokyo 5y agoUnity's ECS source code -- including the archetype-based entity-component model described in the patent -- has been completely public for several years now, so I don't think that's it.