Palworld removes Pal Sphere summons amidst lawsuit over Nintendo patents
Palworld removes Pal Sphere summons amidst lawsuit over Nintendo patents
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Palworld removes Pal Sphere summons amidst lawsuit over Nintendo patents
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Strange that you can patent a game mechanic in software. What's next, the superhero landing? The vpose with a bent leg? Running a certain way with a gun between waypoints?
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What's next, the superhero landing?
A different branch on IP law but for decades Marvel and DC had a shared trademark on "Super Hero".
If either felt they could argue it was a unique trade identifier they would have claimed it exclusively but instead they claimed shared ownership and used it to lock out competition in the space from 1979 to 2024.
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We are still suffering the effects of bad software patents. Tons of garbage patents were granted in the form of "common everyday thing, but on a computer." A notable one was the digital shopping cart that was eventually invalidated.
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There are no good software patents. The concept should be abolished.
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I believe Microsoft has a patent for launching different functions if a button is double clicked versus a single click.
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What if they just single click twice, instead of double-clicking?
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make a shitty game in godot with all these things and file for patents before all the big players do
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I am copyrighting the T pose for player characters and will sue everybody who ever shows it.
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