Monday, November 14, 2005
The Reality of Patent Expirations for the NES
"Gamasutra's running a feature entitled 'Nintendo Entertainment System - Expired Patents Do Not Mean Expired Protection', an interesting read. From the article: 'This article originated when the Gamasutra editors noticed a number of online sources such as Wikipedia stating that it was now completely legal to make NES 'clone' consoles, because all of Nintendo's patents regarding the NES had expired. How true was this statement? We asked game IP lawyer S. Gregory Boyd the question: Are the NES patents expired? If so, is a company free to build and sell new NES-like systems?'"
source:http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/11/210241&tid=205&tid=234&tid=155
source:http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/11/210241&tid=205&tid=234&tid=155
# posted by dark master : 11/14/2005 09:47:00 AM
