Comment on Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent

TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• MyDarkestTimeline01@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Like the other guy said it’s a patient. I don’t know why these days it seems like the patent office is allowing patents for vague concepts, But it needs to stop. The entirety of the video game industry is built on itineration of ideas and concepts that came before. How much longer before they try to patent jumping?

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  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I thought you had to prove it was unique concept before patenting something, anyway. These have obvious examples from other places

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Give them enough rope, and they’ll try to patent opening a menu or pausing the game…

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  copyright

  This isn’t a copyright, but rather a patent.

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  • veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same shit, different spicing.

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    • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Arguably copyright is worse.

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      • veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        People literally die of preventable diseases due to patents. I can’t find any news regarding the last time some nutjob died because they couldn’t torrent Sham’alyan’s Avatar movie.

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