Full Games List
Featured Games
New Games
Reviews
Media
Images
Blogs
Game Updates
Images Feedback Summary
Game Design Highlights
Tutorials
Articles
Scripts
Utilities / Plugins
Resources
Engines
Engine Bulletins
What is Makerscore?
Past Events
Achievements
Misaos
Forums
Post History
Chat
New to RMN?
Full Store List
RMN Music Pack (free)
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MEANS NOTHING ON MOBILE
Posts
Crystalgate
694
Crystalgate
View playlists
Closeauthor=Feldschlacht IV
Are you sure? I remember Square trademarking (or was it a patent) their ATB system in the 90s.
You can trademark a design, but not an idea. This should mean that Sqaresoft could trademark the ATB as it is designed, but not the very idea behind the ATB. Other game developers cannot use a similar design to attract attention via screen-shots or worse, by simple saying "hey, my game uses the ATB!" However, if a company changes the design, say by having a single bar instead of giving each character their own bar and then having the characters represented on the bar via icon, chance is they are in the green. They also have to call it something different and probably even refrain from referring to SE games when presenting their mechanic.
I'm not 100% sure though.
Yeah, you can patent a process or implementation, iirc. So Square could patent their implementation of their ATB system.
EDIT:
When Hero's Realm makes it big-time I am going to trademark the word Hero and then destroy all competitors who've used Hero in their title or marketing.
EDIT:
When Hero's Realm makes it big-time I am going to trademark the word Hero and then destroy all competitors who've used Hero in their title or marketing.
TheNecromancer
3160
author=kentona
When Hero's Realm makes it big-time I am going to trademark the word Hero and then destroy all competitors who've used Hero in their title or marketing.
In the mean time, you could practice with this xD
http://rpgmaker.net/games/5449/
