• viking@infosec.pub
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    1 month ago

    You can’t patent certain game mechanics. Would have to be an actual piece of code that was replicated.

    • SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      In the United States you are correct, you cannot patent game mechanics.

      Nintendo is a Japanese company. They basically wrote their own laws on how IP works in the country.

    • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I didn’t know you could patent code. I thought patents only applied to physical inventions.

      I suppose it makes sense though, there isn’t much difference.