copyright patents
Can I apply for a patent for my game?
<p>I am an individual developer making a game. Can I apply for patent, or is there any way to protect that game concept/idea, so that if any other developer or company wants to use that concept/idea in their game they'd have to get my permission?</p>
<p><strong>Example</strong> there are many racing games but I make a racing game in which players race backwards. I just changed the concept of the game.</p>
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<p>By definition, a patent is a protection for your intellectual property
(that you invented) from being copied. In the case of your game idea,
in the form of a patent, it is considered your invention.</p>
<p>A patent is unique in the fact that it can protect your idea.</p>
<p>The concept for your game that is uniquely yours can be patented and
the idea behind it protected.</p>
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<p>Source:<a href="https://www.gamedesigning.org/career/sell-game-idea/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.gamedesigning.org/career/sell-game-idea/</a></p>
<p>Can this change in concept be patented, or is there any other way to protect that concept?</p>

<p>If you have a truly novel and non-obvious game idea, you could patent it, and that would cost many tens of thousands of dollars if not hundreds of thousands of dollars (U.S.) in legal fees, etc. and probably a couple of years of patent prosecution, if your idea has not already entered the public domain through public display or sale.</p>
<p>Most ideas for games are either not novel, or would be obvious to a person skilled in designing games. But, if your idea is really and truly new, you could do it.</p>
