stackyFACTSImagine successfully claiming legal ownership over rotating a rectangle 90 degrees.
Imagine successfully claiming legal ownership over rotating a rectangle 90 degrees. In 1994, the creators of Magic: The Gathering filed US Patent 5,662,332, which bizarrely granted them the exclusive rights to 'tapping'—the mechanic of turning a card sideways to indicate it has been used. For over twenty years, competitor card games literally couldn't tell their players to turn pieces of paper sideways without getting sued by Hasbro. Capitalism is truly magical.
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