Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis System has finally been granted.IGN reports that the US Patent and Trademark Office released an issue notice on February 3 2021, stating that the patent would go into effect on February 23 2021.Warner Bros will have the option to maintain the patent through until 2035, provided that they pay the required fees.As NME reported last week, WB first attempted to patent the Nemesis System came in 2016, but it had not been accepted.
In 2019 it was listed as pending on GooglePatents after Warner Bros had pushed to continue pursuing the patent.The patent, which was filed as “Nemesis characters, nemesis forts, social vendettas and followers in computer games,” essentially makes it so that other developers are.
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