it be nice they add it here

Maybe but I don't think the Sierra Online rightsholders or for that matter much of anyone is interested, but maybe you can prove me wrong with a wishlist entry.

On CD cover for 1992 DOS CD-ROM release there is an inscription: "EcoQuest/The Search for Cetus contains technologies described in U.S. Patent Applcations No: 598_174 and 658_297". (not sure about the digits though, check the source for yourself)

Nothing about it on 1995 Windows re-release though.

Source:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/584/ecoquest-the-search-for-cetus/cover/group-24440/cover-22719/

Maybe those patents is a sole reason for Activision Blizzard to leave it for good.

You can try and search them out if you like (my IP is not worthy anyway):
https://www.uspto.gov/patents/search

Those patents have likely expired. Neither of them return anything extant and appending 0s to their records suggests these patents are pointing to items of antiquity; the 1800s.

I have no idea, they might be expired OR re-issued / extended with a new numbers. Right?

My understanding is that patents only extend so far and then they ultimately expire; take the NES Joypad for example.

According to what I have found so far:

"International harmonization. "The term of protection available [for patents] shall not end before the expiration of a period of twenty years counted from the filing date." Consequently, in most patent laws nowadays, the term of patent is 20 years from the filing date of the application"

" the patent is past the 20- or 14-year mark (depending on the type of patent), you cannot renew the patent, but you can still own the product and any other materials and information you purchase from the inventor."

How that is affecting specificaly to this topic and if it is the issue behind Eco Quest being the only couple of Sierra old adventures not digitaly rereleased is something I honestly ignore

Anyways Activision didn`t published all the Sierra point and click advenures at once, being Codename Iceman and Shivers 2 the last ones offered here, years later than others

No idea about the NES Joypad expiration (I mean the consequences for the rest of the world), but so far I can hardly see any game controllers with Nintendo-like cross D-pad multitouch on them, unless those are officially approved by Nintendo. And I think Nintendo issues a separate patent for every new game controller whenever they can.

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