The 'Tapper' videogame patent, A legal close reading

Patenting Video Games as an Analytic Exercise

My initial reaction to discovering the Tapper patent was that it seemed like a hilarious parody. There are many silly patents, but this patent isn't silly in only the usual way, that it proposes an invention where I'm skeptical patent protection is really in order. It reads parodically because it seems to be…

Mar 14, 2017 1

• analysis
• criticism
• deconstruction
• video games