>Who benefits from this? Potentially smaller game development studios. It's fairly commonplace in Japan for a bigger company in an industry to file, hold, and

>Who benefits from this? Potentially smaller game development studios. It's fairly commonplace in Japan for a bigger company in an industry to file, hold, and defend patents with their better funded legal departments so that the industry at large can use them without fear of patent trolls or wanton infringers. I am, of course, being fairly generous here.