Just a note to say Context-Free Patent Art is going dark again. I don’t really know for how long. It took seven years and a pandemic to get me back doing this again the first time.

The first stint of CFPA was about 500 posts in two years. This one was around 800 posts in half the time. I’m obviously going to leave all this up in the hopes that people will randomly come across it in the future and waste an afternoon falling down a rabbit hole of nonsense.

But at this point, I have to say I’m a bit tired of staring into the abyss of games industry IP protection. The current trends of NFTs and the metaverse are sure to be producing plenty of nonsense patent applications, but until these manias have passed, I don’t think I’m going to find much entertainment in looking into patent applications wallowing in the most extreme and ill-considered approaches to them.

Regardless of whether this is it for the blog or not, thank you for sharing my interest in this. I’ve mostly enjoyed it and I hope you have, too.