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soupoftomato wrote:

This topic has become "HAHA let's patent [unpatentable idea] we're clever!" and lost it's purpose.

Maybe we could make a tbg of that and get people doing that away from here

Last edited by nama (2012-09-08 10:49:44)

soniku3 wrote:

jukyter wrote:

Lightnin wrote:

OMG that's even awesomer than the laser patent! XD
+10,000

I need to mail that person a check.

Officially the best post Lightnin has ever made.

I agree with Juky.

I don't have any pets. Although,I sometimes use my lazer pointer on my baby brother. It works every time.

luiysia wrote:

Harakou wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

I don't think patents are ENTIRELY evil.
We have to look at places where it serves to do GOOD as well.

While the idea of "action" (such as shining a laser in front of a cat) and software patents are silly (Anything patented in that category may be necessary for certain games or ideas to function), I think physical patents are a good idea. It will force you to come up with a different product than the patented one, therefore it would progress inventing into something better than the item already patented.

I agree. The main problem with the current system is that you can patent vague concepts and ideas that often end up being thought of by someone else. Instead of patents on specific implementations, you see these very broad ideas that are open to interpretation. It's comparable to, instead of patenting a specific mechanism by which you can open a drawer, just patenting the idea of sliding a drawer out horizontally.

I remember I read once that Namco has the patent for loading screen minigames. That's why you'll have to sit through all non-Namco loading screens until about November 2015.

Edit: Here it is. It basically says you can't have a game where you have loading screen minigames unless you're Namco.

I have a feeling namco will actually do that because they removed a scratch project