EA (Electronic Arts) have added a few more patents to their Patent Pledge for Increasing Accessibility to help game developers.

Alternate headline: “EA did a good thing in latest attempt to get off naughty list”

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You can’t patent something that already exists.

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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.

Something Burger 🍔
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My point is if they created something without patenting it, it is no longer possible for anyone to patent it.

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these things often do not exist yet, hence the patent

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