Given how video game patents are in the news lately (with Nintendo suing the PalWorld devs for patent infringement rather than copyright infringement), I wonder

Given how video game patents are in the news lately (with Nintendo suing the PalWorld devs for patent infringement rather than copyright infringement), I wonder how this would have turned out if Capcom managed to patent how SF2 works and sued for that instead. Personally I think patenting game mechanics is absurd (far worse than software patents, even). It would be like an authoring patenting the three-act structure. More legal clarity around this would be nice. Maybe Judge Alsup could become a combo lab monster[0] as well to help decide the case! [0]https://glossary.infil.net/?t=Lab https://glossary.infil.net/?t=Lab