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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

And what part of the game is infringing a patent?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Sega alleges infringements of the following five patents: No. 5930111, No. 6402953, No. 6891987, No. 7297361 and No. 7411307, all of which are registered in Japan.

I tried checking out that first patent there, 5930111 and who boy... is this shit hard to read

An information processing device includes: a control means for causing the player to acquire a content in response to a game execution instruction from the player; an extraction means for extracting content groups of the same type from contents possessed by the player, according to an instruction from the player; a selection means for automatically selecting fusion source contents and resource contents from each of the extracted content groups; and a fusion means for collectively fusing, for each of the fusion source contents, one of the resource contents of the same type as the each of the fusion source contents. The selection means selects, as the resource contents, contents having a rarity at or below a specific level, from each of the extracted content groups.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

Okay this might fit

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck off.... that could literally mean anything.... I've read Trump quotes that were more intelligible than that....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

How is anyone supposed to proof their work from not only this, but every single other bullshit patent out there?

What the actual fuck

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay what the hell did I just read?

From my very very rough and cursory glance though: wouldn't this also likely be infringed by games such as Genshin Impact for their Auto "fuse" (aka enhancement) selection mechanic or does this patent have some more nuanced/specific thing which everyone else did not implement to skirt around it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

After attempting to read through it, seems like a menu to fuse or combine game objects which contain some form of sorting system as dictated by the player.. So I'm going to assume they mean their phantasy star online 2 ~~weapon~~ item fusion system.

It's such a rough definition that this can only be classified as a patent troll case. Not that they care about hiding that fact.

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