@BoxOfScraps:

@Nethlem:

Well, it isn't all that bad either - given niche (nerd/otaku) initial audience and that it was up against a more mainstream blockbuster.

@Nethlem:

@Nethlem:

@tsukasa1288: there you are, you get a promotion for apologising!

@ExistentialEgg:

"the country" huh?

@pandafresh:

It is either OK to pretend to kill people or it isn't.

@Ash Paulsen: I'll second that. There's hundreds/thousands of stories about boys that are not in the least contentious. Harry Potter, 'About a Boy', Alex Kidd, Great Expectations, the story of Pi, the Billy Bunter stories, young Link etc etc.

@SecretMoblin:

@AbyssMaster: Neatly done!

@SecretMoblin:

@JKLoogie:

@TheSolarKnight:

@Skylance: You may have a point there - I'm from the UK (but have also checked this out in France, Germany, Sweden).

@MrNose: @SinisterBill is waiting for you, in the test chamber:

@Merricat: Absolutely. And what I'm looking at here is a challenge based on 'obviousness' - because some post on a blog won't show that the invention was produced before but can show that the idea is sufficiently obvious to not be patentable.

Hmm. I might very well challenge that patent based on a post I made on GAF - if only I could find the thing (chances are I made one here as well at about the same time - and I think it was explicit enough that a 'public domain prior art' challenge might work).