• gens
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    13 days ago

    You can’t patent game mechanics, afaik

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      13 days ago

      People patented how to get jpegs of your camera to your PC by file transfer. Trolls in my opinion.

    • FishFace@piefed.social
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      13 days ago

      You can patent pretty much anything in a lot of countries because the patent office officials don’t pay any attention. Probably it’d get thrown out in court, but that doesn’t really matter to a patent troll who will be able to make loads of money from settlements that never go to court because settling is cheaper.