@Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place
Post #2419266
2022-12-03 01:04 UTC
@me_@sueden.social @byterhymer@mastodon.social @ole@chaos.social
Maybe rightfully so, considering that it apparently has been invented independently by two teams on different continents at roughly the same time
(I wish patent offices still were this strict)
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@me_@sueden.social 2022-12-03 09:51
@Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place @byterhymer@mastodon.social @ole@chaos.social Agreed – in the interview with the CHM the inventor also states that they got the idea by essentially turning a trackball, which already existed for radar applications, upside-down.
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@RAprism@berlin.social 2022-12-03 10:32
@Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place @me_@sueden.social @byterhymer@mastodon.social @ole@chaos.social I guess there are enough trivial patents around. Main reason might be that big companies just count or weigh their patents as IP KPI.