8th November 2025, 3:32 PM
Don't confuse the art design with the gameplay design. You really don't want to live in a world where gameplay mechanics can be patented. Warcraft and Starcraft wouldn't exist without Dune II after all.
In any case, as expected, the U.S. patent office are reexamining this software patent, and good.
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/pokemon...y-is-good/
Just like how Amazon should never be granted a patent on a "digital shopping cart", Nintendo has no business trying to patent the concept of capturing monsters to battle other monsters.... not least because they didn't even come up with it originally in the first place.
In any case, as expected, the U.S. patent office are reexamining this software patent, and good.
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/pokemon...y-is-good/
Just like how Amazon should never be granted a patent on a "digital shopping cart", Nintendo has no business trying to patent the concept of capturing monsters to battle other monsters.... not least because they didn't even come up with it originally in the first place.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)