Nintendo and the Pokémon Company filing Lawsuit for Infringement of Patent Rights against Pocketpair, Inc. (Palworld)
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2024/240919.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldhttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2024/240919.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
The clapback:
https://www.pocketpair.jp/news/news16
Patent rights? You gotta be kidding me. The hell did they patent? Throwing a ball?
Apparently, in their LONG list of patents, is one for the in-game Pokemon Storage Box. Just speculation, of course, but that could be one the Pokemon Company cites.
An inventory system, WAOW
Almost literally. They patented:
catching characters in thrown balls
calling on characters by throwing a ball
using captured characters to fight and harvest resources
@nonprofitparrot, if you have the links to the patents at hand, it would be grand if you can share them.
@peopleproblems
Scroll past the nintendo switch. https://imgur.com/gallery/pokemons-patent-vs-palworld-jp-7398425-b-zFDuKSc
To be clear, no official source has released these patents as definitively relevant to this case. But they sure look relevant.
@nonprofitparrot thank you.
Interesting. I wonder if those are about the Pokeball controller/peripheral (more likely given the time) or the in-game throwing.
Why doesn't it say much?
probably doesn't have much weight, using it as scare tactic
Nintendo can suck a dick with their shovelware games
Should be thrown out, they had more than enough time to react, it wasn't an unknown project but waited until the hype died down, and the money was generated.
That's not how patent law works.
It's almost like Nintendo wanted to make as much money as possible in court.