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HUGE blow to Nintendo: head of U.S. patent office takes RARE step to order reexamination of “summon subcharacter and let it fight in 1 of 2 modes” patent – games fray (gamesfray.com)
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[-] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Software patents in general just slow down human progress. I could say the same about the patent and copyright system in general.

Also capitalism.

[-] bizzle@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

Do you mean to tell me that IP law exists only to gatekeep ideas and funnel wealth into an ever-shrinking number of hands? And maybe that the execution of those ideas is more important? You might be on to something...

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