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Harder to ignore (Destiny)

by Vortech @, A Fourth Wheel, Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 16:39 (2393 days ago) @ Ragashingo

With any luck the public outcry will keep this away. Note that even Activision is already distancing themselves from it:

This was an exploratory patent filed in 2015 by an R&D team working independently from our game studios," an Activision spokesperson tells Glixel. "It has not been implemented in-game.


Oh, and I do find the whole concept of “exploratory patents” to be tasteful... Either make something and patent it or don’t. This half way “we patented something that isn’t real and doesn’t actually exist” is crazy!

It's not that it does not exist, but rather that it has not been offered in the marketplace. They made it. (there are cases where it really seems like they have granted patents for things that have never actually been made and that's not how Patents work.)

justly ,Trademark has a requirement that the market be used in trade for it to continue to be protected.


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