Jim Katz 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! > > <snip> > >> Actually I'm talking about 'Games' not the sub category of them being >> 'Video' There is content in video games that is often copyrighted, >> like the images, and the soundtrack. The 'idea' behind the game >> isn't patentable. Case in point popular games spur many similar >> titles, of which unless they are 'enough different' will flop. >> >> -- > ! Jim Katz Was his patent for the software (and the way it did some specific things) contained in the game or the mechanics of the game itself? I think you may have missed my point in hopes to take me too literarily. You can't patent (or at least I refuse to even accept you have a right) ideas like 'first person shooter' or ideas to the inner machinisms of game (setting software aside) like when you die you lose a 'life' and have only so many 'lives', etc. I'd like to mention that I used the phrase 'generally can't' through out what you snipped from. I can't stop some asshole from thinking he somehow owns an idea, I can just refuse to accept his claim to ownership.