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game mechanics are not patentable. This is ludicrous to the nth degree
by Madmallard 3y ago
game mechanics are not patentable. This is ludicrous to the nth degree
- NotYourLawyer 3y agoThere have been some decisions in that direction (https://www.nutter.com/ip-law-bulletin/no-dice-for-gaming-patent-under-35-USC-101 https://www.nutter.com/ip-law-bulletin/no-dice-for-gaming-pa...) but there's no per se rule against patenting game mechanics. Also, the story here is talking about Japanese patents. I have no idea if game mechanics are patentable there.
- dathinab 3y agothe truly absurd part is that there is priority art, en -mass and when you patent something you have to sign that you did proper research and found that there is priority art etc. parents aren't a first tries to patent it wins system, but first tries to patent something which isn't publicly available/known wins system can we pleas start hugely penalizing companies for blandly deceiving the patent office, i.e. doing what I would say is systematic fraud (and no longer make the patent office have the number of patents they grant being a positive/desired metric, too)
- fomine3 3y agoNote that similar thing was said by Yamauchi former Nintendo president https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/05/back_in_1979_nintendos_president_said_everyone_should_copy_each_others_ideas https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/05/back_in_1979_ninte...