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coyotino [he/him] ( theangriestbird@beehaw.org )  to GamingEnglish · 1 year ago

Nintendo now has a US patent on summoning characters and making them battle for you | VGC

www.videogameschronicle.com

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Nintendo now has a US patent on summoning characters and making them battle for you | VGC

www.videogameschronicle.com

coyotino [he/him] ( theangriestbird@beehaw.org )  to GamingEnglish · 1 year ago
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The new patent theoretically covers an action that is present in numerous non-Nintendo games…
  • masterspace ( masterspace@lemmy.ca ) 
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    No one should be able to do it is the right reaction, but ‘Nintendo deserves no blame or shame for choosing to do it’ is the wrong reaction. Nintendo could have used all the money it spends on IP lawyers to instead lobby the government to change the patent system, but they chose not to.

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      No-one you replied to said anything different which is why I find your reply weird.

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        I misread the comment hierarchy, I thought this was a part of a different chain.

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