EA opens up more patents for increasing Accessibility in gaming
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Alternate headline: "EA did a good thing in latest attempt to get off naughty list"
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Alternate headline: "EA did a good thing in latest attempt to get off naughty list"
...leaving the idea unclaimed for someone else to patent instead? Strange take.
The patent system is far from perfect, but patents themselves are necessary. EA had an idea, they had the right to patent it. They had the right to keep the patent closed, instead they opted to open it.
You can't patent something that already exists.
If the idea already existed EA wouldn't have been issued the patent. That's part of the process of obtaining the patent.
Point is moot because the patent was issued.
My point is if they created something without patenting it, it is no longer possible for anyone to patent it.
these things often do not exist yet, hence the patent