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Independent Game Developers: The Latest Targets of a Bad Patent TrollEFF.orgJul. 15, 2013 |
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 A growing number of independent game developers have received demand letters from Treehouse Avatar Technologies for allegedly violating patent 8,180,858, a "Method and system for presenting data over a network based on network user choices and collecting real-time data related to said choices." Essentially, this patent covers creating a character online, and having the game log how many times a particular character trait was chosen. Read More |
