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Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair
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this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2024
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The claim says patent claim. This isn't design related then. What is the claim then? Appearance of monsters doesn't make a patent case.
Nor the whole idea of capturing opponents to raise them and make them fight for you. That's from 1987 already, from the Shin Megami Tensei series; it predates Pokemon by a fair bit.
Except they filed a patent for exactly that recently, so I'm guessing it is for the capture mechanics. It shouldn't pass muster in that case, but Japanese courts be wild (and very pro-Nintendo).
I gave it a check. If Pocketpair plays it smart they can make Nintendo look like a herd of muppets in the court, and even potentially acting on bad faith. Pocketpair might also simply change a few elements of its own game through an update, much like PvZ replacing Michael Jackson zombie with a disco zombie.
I'm not even sure how much patents apply to games.
I really hope so. The last thing we need is Nintendo deciding that they own every game mechanic they've ever used.