Nintendo Patents Emulators
"Seth Johnson" <[email protected]>
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-----Original Message----- From: David Touve <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:00:42 -0500 Subject: pho: Patents finds a way around emulator gap It appears that Nintendo has found a way to shift the debate over the emulation of game software (whether expired or still in the market) to yet another filed - patents. The company has not only filed, but also been granted, a patent covering the emulation of "low power" handheld game platforms. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/36218.html Interesting to note: I don't think Nintendo has ever produced its own emulator. Though the company makes an original product (GameBoy), it has converted this to a patent on emulation. Wasn't there a time when new inventions had to appear on the desk of the patent officer? Yet now we can patent those thoughts yet to be converted to a product. david touve ----------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Pho mailing list. Help?! http://www.pholist.org/help.php