On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:07:15AM -0500, Jim Katz <jimkatz at ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Hi Gametech, > My buddy Lance is going to be awfully disappointed when he learns that > the 5000 plus dollars he laid out to patent a new game he invented is > just money down the drain because patents aren't issued for games???? I > think NOT! He's going to be awfully disappointed when his expensive patent lawyer gets back to him. You can patent *techniques* used in a computer game (although even that is a stretch -- software patents are problematic), but you can't patent the game itself. Copyright law would apply to the rest of the game. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp