The US Patent Office have rejected a Nintendo Pokemon patent for summoning subcharacters

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• ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So many software patents are nuts. The idea of owning rights to a specific game mechanic is just as bad. Abstracted to the Nth degree you could read this request as char A told char B to do a thing and they comply. That’s hardly a unique enough thing to merit any kind of legal protection.

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• hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Their patent on summoning domcharacters still stands.

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