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¿Question #3307?
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magikaru: Yup
Woelf: Only when the patent gets used to screw over some other (potentially better) game that tries to use something similar.
pwilz: I do occasionally, but only out of brief intellectual curiousity.
Spirit of 70: No.
puffinge: only if things become too silly
Felimid: Some things have been patented to death (or the patent protection has been prolonged far past any sensible length of time) ... so I guess the answer is "no".
frontlinegeneral: should I care? Do you have any examples? Am I going to get sued? OMG! :/
quentin1: mo
ahoodedfigure: I think it's a bit weak to patent them, but I think it's better than copyrighting them.
WatchmanX2000: If I did, would you move back to Columbus?
ritterman: No.
jellospike: No
simply4est: Yes
spacerx: nope.
ironsizide: I don't care about patents at all.
virre: A bit, but patents rarley works correctly so...
aleo09: nope
Sceadeau: name one
themadking2k: Nope
themagni: I don't care about anything.
TheArchAngel: no
DHEK: Huh... there are game mechanisms that are patented?! Well, anyway, I don't think I'd care.
rootbeer: Nope. I think it's a silly publicity grab, mostly.
PA_Jason: A bit silly, really
ZiggyZambo: no
POvidiusNaso: Nope.
Gibbo: no
bwildrick: Yes.
millsyboy: Yes, I don't think it makes sense to patent game mechanisms.
dmomo: Not enough to worry about it.
Dorque: Nope.
vampywife: it depends on the mechanisms
Hossen: such as?
javelin98: No
Linguist: not really.
brainrob: No
drsingle: No
shawn_low: Not unless Hasborg wants to steal mine.
Felderin: Should I?
scriptorum: Yes, I care. I don't feel they should be allowed. But software patents are years ahead on the alarming scale.
mats-k: Yes.
JamesT: Yes. They are a bad thing.
Jim_P: No
axarca: deeply...
GuyHill: no
skrutsch: not really
Lord_Prussian: Should I?
sourwyrm: they can patent those?
rdmasters: Yes, they're evil!
Tailuje: what?
ValJor: Nah
dr glaze et al: No. Unless they help tranfer millions in damages from HasBorg to Tom Jolly, then yes.
jttm: Not really
snoozefest: not sure what you mean - it'd be nice if everyone could share mechanisms, but I understand that a designer might want rights to something they created
djlg: No.
2amp: no
skelebone: Not really, patenting processes is pretty moronic.
chaddyboy_2000: No.
CortexBomb: On what sense? As in, are they good or bad for games in general? I would say bad
heli: don't like injustice
Spielfreak: Only that they shouldn't be patented. D'ya think Tom Jolly has some lawyers on retainer?
CDRodeffer: I would if I got sued.