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Eternal Darkness' infamous sanity system patent has expired - so can anyone now copy it?
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Yeah well when the copyright courts agreed to Namco's patent on loading screen minigames it kind of freaked everyone out back then and people patented every dumbshit thing. For a short time Amazon tried to patent the single click purchase