Gamasutra - Blogs http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ Steve Breslin's Blogs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:57:49 EST en-us scarless@think-services.com (Simon Carless) BioWare's conversation patent failure - by Steve Breslin http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SteveBreslin/20110818/8221/BioWares_conversation_patent_failure.php Game Design,Serious The New Yorker falsely reported last week that BioWare had patented the "paraphrase" conversation system used in Mass Effect and other games. They did in fact attempt to patent it, but failed. Read on to find out why, and learn the facts about patent law. http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SteveBreslin/20110818/8221/BioWares_conversation_patent_failure.php Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:11:00 EDT