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Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago

Algorithmic patents amount to patenting maths which, by very longstanding precedence, is not a thing, for good reason.

You absolutely can patent "math" (well, more like physics) IRL. What matters though is that the invention actually has to be novel and non-obvious, and IMO it should also be harder to patent if it's in a segment like software where costs of development, iteration and "research" are generally extremely cheap. Like, it should have a way higher bar for the "novelness".

And I would not allow any kind of software design patent (use copyright or trademark to protect that).