by forwardslash

Mojang, developer of the enormously popular independent video game "Minecraft," announced Saturday it is being sued for patent infringement.

Because of the nature of the claim by a small company based in Plano, Texas, and named Uniloc USA Inc., it is believed by some that Uniloc may be a patent troll. The firm has also targeted gaming developers Square Enix, Gameloft, and Electronic Arts.

Great, another round of patent trolling, and it gets better.

According to PatentBuddy, the patent Mojang is being accused of infringing was filed in 2005. It is for "a system and method ... for preventing unauthorized access to electronic data stored on an electronic device."

Good lord almighty, my blocky kingdom for an online authorization patent.