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Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld
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The problem is a hash algorithm is exactly the sort of thing that copyright would be horrible at protecting. The source code is hardly relevant at all, it's the operations that matter.
A big part of patents is to allow private sector research to occur. RCA failed and maybe patents should just fail too.