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Looking up those patents, the first alludes to a system where a player aims and fires an “item” toward a character in a field, and in doing so triggers combat, and then dives into extraordinary intricacies about switching between modes within this. The second is very similar, but seems more directly focused on tweaking previous patents to including being able to capture Pokémon in the wild, rather than only during battle. The third, rather wildly, seems to be trying to claim a modification to the invention of riding creatures in an open world and being able to transition between them easily.

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 138 points 1 day ago (20 children)

Software patents shouldn't exist!

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Patents shouldn't exist! Mostly.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Patents shouldn’t exist! Mostly.

We had a history before patents/copyright were enforced. It was pretty brutal for anyone trying to make a living with their creations. Take a look and see if you want to return to that.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 17 hours ago

I agree that it's the best thing in capitalist society. I feel like if you think patents should exist, software patents should also exist, though.

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