Timeline for GamePlay Patent
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| Aug 14, 2011 at 21:38 | comment | added | user744 | Knowing every patent that applies to your game is an enormous risk (treble damages) with no benefit (you can't make a game - or any software - without violating at least one patent). "Lots of danger and no benefits" sure sounds nonconstructive to me. | |
| Jul 25, 2011 at 2:39 | comment | added | user179700 | You're clearly misusing 'not constructive'. To say, that knowing business risks is not constructive seems to pervert the meaning to the point of breaking. | |
| Jul 15, 2011 at 15:31 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackGameDev/status/91892762059874304 | ||
| Jul 15, 2011 at 11:12 | vote | accept | Edward83 | ||
| Jul 14, 2011 at 9:59 | comment | added | user744 | I am voting to close this as "not constructive". For those unfamiliar with the patent system: Knowing about the existence of a patent but implementing it anyway triples the damages you must pay as a defendant in a patent case. Reading a list of patents is potentially very dangerous for a game developer. (Or software engineer, or etc.) | |
| Jul 14, 2011 at 3:54 | comment | added | Randolf Richardson | Here's that "another reason" for you -- according to the EFF (who include a link to it; patent number 6,264,560), in 1998 this guy patented "real-time multi-player online games, including card games:" eff.org/patent/wanted/patent.php?p=sheldon | |
| Jul 13, 2011 at 18:44 | answer | added | Mitch Lindgren | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 13, 2011 at 18:44 | answer | added | Patrick Hughes | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 13, 2011 at 17:14 | comment | added | thedaian | If there are patents on these basic gameplay mechanics, then I'd have yet another reason to hate current patent law. | |
| Jul 13, 2011 at 17:14 | answer | added | Quazi Irfan | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 13, 2011 at 17:14 | answer | added | Valmond | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 13, 2011 at 17:13 | answer | added | DeadMG | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 13, 2011 at 17:09 | history | edited | Edward83 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 13, 2011 at 16:57 | history | asked | Edward83 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |