Comment on EA opens up more patents for increasing Accessibility in gaming

• SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The better alternative would be to not patent it in the first place.

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then a patent troll steals it and makes things worse for everyone.

    Patenting something then immediately opening it up is by far the best option.

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    • Poayjay@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s literally not a thing. Once something is publicly disclosed it can’t be patented (unless it is by the discloser during the one year grace period). You can take someone else’s invention and patent it. If someone does you can invalidate their patent without even a lawyer. If you want something you invent to be free for everyone the best thing you can do is get it out into the world and not patent it.

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      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re not supposed to. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

        Nobody wants to spend the court costs to get a patent troll stripped of their bad patent. And for a patent troll you’re going to need a lawyer, they’re going to fight tooth and nail to keep it since that’s their source of income.

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      • Perroboc@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh boy are you wrong. Check out the patents to polio vaccines, or Volvos three point seatbelt.

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  • GorgeousDumpsterFire@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …leaving the idea unclaimed for someone else to patent instead? Strange take.

    The patent system is far from perfect, but patents themselves are necessary. EA had an idea, they had the right to patent it. They have the right to keep the patent closed, instead they opted to open it.

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    • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can’t patent something that already exists.

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      • GorgeousDumpsterFire@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If the idea already existed EA wouldn’t have been issued the patent. That’s part of the process of obtaining the patent.

        Point is moot because the patent was issued.

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      • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        these things often do not exist yet, hence the patent

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• kubica@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  this is opening up patents

  My bad, I understood it with the meaning of "creating".

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