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How is that even legal? Decades after releasing something, a competitor comes along and releases their product, so you decide "now's the time to file a patent" and you can kill the competitor. That should create a very unstable business environment as no new business can be safe when making a patent check as they can be filed after you created a product by somebody else. It makes no sense.
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I was just thinking this. Japan's patent system is so fucked up. You can do everything right, look up all relevant existing patents to make sure you're in the clear, then a competitor ex post facto files and kills your business.
Doubt that any company would get away with this. Maybe only biggest hundred or so
This is literally what Nintendo is doing right now.
They filled this suit, and only THEN filed for a bunch of extra patents they didn't already have in order to increase the damages they could claim from Pocket Pair for being in violation.
I already think patents for game design mechanics are idiotic an unethical, but this is absolutely insane.
Yeah, I said "get away with" and you said "they are doing" these can both be true, and I even provided the reason, too big to fail.
Not only are they getting away with it, it looks like they'll continue to benefit from it.
I'm not sure what reality you're living to think they're not.
Future tense is used for denoting events that have not happened yet. And also, why do you care so much? The world is fucked sixty five ways till Sunday, so why the focus here?
What do you think will happen to them, because they pulled this?
I can pay attention to more than one thing. These greedy corporations abusing legal systems is why the world is so fucked. Trying to handwaved this as not mattering sounds like you admit you're wrong
Japans laws regarding copyright and patents are.... hazy