According to videogame patent lawyer Kirk Sigmon, the USPTO granting Nintendo these latest patents isn’t just a moment of questionable legal theory. It’s an indictment of American patent law.

“Broadly, I don’t disagree with the many online complaints about these Nintendo patents,” said Sigmon, whose opinions do not represent those of his firm and clients. “They have been an embarrassing failure of the US patent system.”

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    13 hours ago

    Get rid of the requirement to pay for art in a capitalist society, and you destroy art.

    Again, you brainless fools will argue all day just to reinvent what IP laws were originally supposed to be…