Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 526630" data-attributes="member: 813">IANAL.The prior post is correct. You have to come up with something a person in the field would not consider obvious. Changing something's color is obvious.&nbsp; Without details there's not much more to say.You cannot patent game rules. You cannot patent an algorithm. You can patent a computer that performs an algorithm. This means that if you come up with the most obvious way to write such a program, you can gain patent on the algorithm itself since no one can make a similar program. But I don't see how this would apply to game rules. Obviously you don't need the computer program to play most games so since there is no &quot;invention&quot; (aka a thing) there is nothing to patent.Of course, these days the u.s. patent office is a rubber stamp agency so you might succeed if you tried but if would cost you on the order of $10,000+.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 526630, member: 813"] IANAL. The prior post is correct. You have to come up with something a person in the field would not consider obvious. Changing something's color is obvious. Without details there's not much more to say. You cannot patent game rules. You cannot patent an algorithm. You can patent a computer that performs an algorithm. This means that if you come up with the most obvious way to write such a program, you can gain patent on the algorithm itself since no one can make a similar program. But I don't see how this would apply to game rules. Obviously you don't need the computer program to play most games so since there is no "invention" (aka a thing) there is nothing to patent. Of course, these days the u.s. patent office is a rubber stamp agency so you might succeed if you tried but if would cost you on the order of $10,000+. [/QUOTE]

Verification