Guitar Hero patents revealed at last!!!

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Guitar Hero patents revealed at last!!!

Post by Amp Divorax » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:48 pm

I figured something like this had to be going on since Red Octane didn't get sued out of existance, but I'm shocked that it has been openly mentioned.

There are two sets of patents in use in the game itself, the first set originating from the arcade game 'MTV Drumscape.' Those patents were eventually purchased by Activision and also predate the Bemani franchise as a whole. The second set of patent used are owned by none other than Konami, which there is apparently an agreement going on between them and Activision to the extent that Guitar Hero 3 reflects it.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_i ... tory=16014 has more information about the patents.
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