126
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2024
126 points (96.3% liked)
Games
39400 readers
560 users here now
Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.
Rules
Authorized Regular Threads
Related communities
Video games
Generic
- Gaming: Our sister community, focused on PC and console gaming. Meme are allowed.
- Cosy Games: Because not everything has to explode to make a good game
- !photomode@feddit.uk
Help and suggestions
- Tip Of My Joystick : You are searching for a game, but can't remember the name? Someone will find it for you here.
- Videogame Suggestions : Can't find a game to play in among the hundred you already own? Find another one to add to your library here.
- Patient Gamers: Gaming isn't only about having the latest great games. Good old games are there too.
Platform specific
- Linux Gaming : For everything related to gaming on Linux platform, be it on Steam Deck or Desktop Linux.
- Steam Deck : A Steam Deck specific community
Game specific
Language specific
Others
PM a mod to add your own
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I'm pretty certain these patents are actually relatively new, keep that in mind too
Yeah the newer they are, the more frivolous they are - especially since you could argue the release of games using those patents amounts to public disclosure.
However, you're still left in the situation where an established patent is very solid and difficult to challenge, even when it should never have been granted in the first place.
Filing for patent on a mechanic that's been in the public for 28 years already is disingenuous as fuck. Pokemon started in 1996. The throw a ball at it thing has been out there for nearly 30 years. If you have filed a patent for it in all that time... and just now choose to. That's just dumb. If they were to have applied for the patent the day that pokemon was thing in the USA... The patent would have expired 8 years ago. It's untenable to accept these patents from Nintendo.
They also filled these in Japanese court where Nintendos success affects their economy greatly
Remember how apple won every fucking lawsuit against Samsung back in the day because they filled them in California?
The court is going to be pressured by outside forces to rule in Nintendo's favor to avoid the stock market having issues there