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Originally Posted by teh603
So let me get this straight, if I go and secure a patent on fire, then I'll have the world over a barrel, right?
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If it was *patentable* in the first place, and nobody had patented it first you would. Try an example that might actually be patentable under current law instead of one that would be laughed out of the Patent Ofice.
The Immersion case is a pretty good example; they had a patent for using an electric motor to create vibrations in response to gaming conditions. From *our* perspective, this is obvious.
However, at the time they filed the patent nobody else had submitted the idea. They were the first.
The fact that MS and Sony later implemented it on their own did nothing to negate the fact that whoever filed the Immersion patent got there first.
That is exactly how patents are supposed to work.