"Bad patents like this cast a massive shadow on the industry."

According to videogame patent lawyer Kirk Sigmon, the USPTO granting Nintendo these latest patents isn’t just a moment of questionable legal theory. It’s an indictment of American patent law.

“Broadly, I don’t disagree with the many online complaints about these Nintendo patents,” said Sigmon, whose opinions do not represent those of his firm and clients. “They have been an embarrassing failure of the US patent system.”

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Intellectual property is a means of production after its released. It requires no further input from the creator, and so they shouldnt have a monopoly over it.

    If the person who created it cannot profit from it, then nobody should be able to.

    I think most artists would agree.

    • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      There should be a mechanism to reward artists for their work and enable them to keep creating, but without also allowing a system of vampires to control that mechanism and enslave them in a twisted web of dependency and power.