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   cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 09:25:54 JST cool_boy_mew
   I hope they lose this one. Fuck Pokémon, release better Pokémon games
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 09:26:06 JST Hoss Delgado

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     The most pathetic are the ones literally simping for a billion-dollar corporations and not even getting paid for it.
     翠星石 and Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: like this.
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     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 09:26:14 JST Nudhul

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     @Hoss @coolboymew nintendo zealots be like
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 09:30:40 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @coolboymew Patents? Pokémon is well over 20 years old.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 09:40:12 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @coolboymew And kind of interesting that it took Nintendo 9 months to file a suit.
     Meanwhile I thought the most likely one would have been over copyright or trademark due to rather similar character designs.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 14:05:49 JST 翠星石

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     • Birdulon
     @birdulon >happen for retarded IP laws to get thrown out with prejudice internationally
     Imaginary Property does not exist, even legally, so there is nothing to get thrown out; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
     
     If you mean patents, write patents.
     If you mean copyright, write copyright.
     If you mean trade secrets, write trade secrets.
     If you mean trademarks, write trademarks.
     
     Please do not spread proprietary confusion by grouping completely unrelated laws.
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     Birdulon (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 14:05:50 JST Birdulon

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     • Leyonhjelm
     @Leyonhjelm @coolboymew @mrsaturday checked /v/ thread, saw these patent diagrams
     
     which political assassinations have to happen for retarded IP laws to get thrown out with prejudice internationally? (Purely a thought exercise, not a threat of any actions to any persons alive or deceased)
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     Birdulon (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 14:05:51 JST Birdulon

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     • Leyonhjelm
     @Leyonhjelm @coolboymew @mrsaturday someone linked me https://patents.justia.com/patent/20230191255
     I wonder if Nintendo's lawyers know that Palworld doesn't have modal combat.
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     Leyonhjelm (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 14:05:52 JST Leyonhjelm

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     Maybe but in basically every modern system of patents there is an accounting for prior art. I doubt a series as old as Pokémon has a valid patent for basic core gameplay ideas.
     
     Usually at that age it’s trademark or copyright.
     
     @coolboymew
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     Leyonhjelm (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 14:05:53 JST Leyonhjelm

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     @coolboymew
     
     They are more likely to get a patent thrown out than get paid. Unless they think the defendant will quickly settle.
     
     @mrsaturday
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     John Fediverse (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 14:05:53 JST John Fediverse

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     • Leyonhjelm
     @Leyonhjelm @coolboymew I don't know, it's in Japanese court and that's a whole different system and culture
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     John Fediverse (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 14:05:55 JST John Fediverse

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     @coolboymew That it says "patent" is what confuses me. Many other games have used a capsule system like they did
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 14:05:55 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • John Fediverse
     @mrsaturday it could be a lot of things, who the fuck knows what they could even patent here
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     John Fediverse (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 14:05:56 JST John Fediverse

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     @coolboymew The game itself is nothing like Pokemon. What patent exactly is being violated here?
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 14:05:56 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @mrsaturday Imma gonna guess some designs are a bit asking for it and the capture system
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     Birdulon (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 14:07:08 JST Birdulon

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     @coolboymew @Leyonhjelm @mrsaturday maybe good guy nintendo is just helping the courts come to the logical conclusion that software patents shouldn't exist as a concept
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 14:07:09 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Birdulon
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     • Leyonhjelm
     @birdulon @Leyonhjelm @mrsaturday why are these patents even allowed to exist? They're utterly retarded
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 14:29:59 JST 翠星石

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     • Birdulon
     @birdulon >They're all facets of the idea that exclusive rights to a concept exist
     There are no "rights", there are only restrictions.
     
     Such idea falls apart immediately, as exclusive restrictions to a concept only apply to invalidly granted patents and it is an error to conflate such with other laws.
     
     Trade secrets do not cover concepts - they covers information that a company keeps secret - like their list of customers for example.
     
     Copyright doesn't cover concepts - rather it covers the unique creative expression of a work - you could read Sherlok Holmes and decide to write your own book about the concept of a detective without infringing copyright.
     
     Trademarks don't cover concepts either - they're a word that refers to a specific product - with usage of such trademark anywhere being allowed (even in an advertisement for another product) as long as it refers to the specific product - plus trademarks aren't exclusive either, as you can apply for the same trademark for a different field (i.e. a kernel and a laundry detergent have the same word trademarked).
     
     >I'm generalizing because copyright, patents, and trademarks all have aspects I would like to see destroyed worldwide.
     It is far more effective to point out which aspects of each set of laws you would like to see destroyed, rather than never actually writing about the such aspects and overgeneralizing to the point of confusing the crap out of those lacking knowledge instead.
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     Birdulon (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 14:30:00 JST Birdulon

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     @Suiseiseki They're all facets of the idea that exclusive rights to a concept exist, even though they are very different sets of laws even within a given country. I'm not generalizing to shield the evil parts with the sympathetic ones, I'm generalizing because copyright, patents, and trademarks all have aspects I would like to see destroyed worldwide.