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Nintendo Patent Approved in August Could Be What It Uses Against Palworld (gamerant.com)
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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 183 points 3 months ago

This patent was first submitted in late July 2024 and granted the following month, after Nintendo and The Pokemon Company asked for an accelerated review process.

What the fuck - so, they're claiming infringement on a work that was released before they ever submitted their patent? How is that allowed? Are you telling me a company can wait until another company releases a similar product, then apply for a patent for something they used, then claim infringement? I knew patents were fucked, but I didn't realize they were that fucked.

[-] irish_link@lemmy.world 71 points 3 months ago

It’s not. In fact you know how this kind of patent gets invalidated, by pointing out what’s know as prior art. Things that did “this” before that patent was filed. So Palworlds and any other game that involves capturing a creature. This “killer patent” won’t stand up in Court unless the Japanese Court is entirely different than the US and German Courts.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 38 points 3 months ago

JP courts are corpo jokes and their IP laws are even big clown shoe than US.

I take extra pleasure pirating JP product, fuck the corporate trash

[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago

The request for an expedited review of patent number 7545191 also facilitated the approval of three other patents from Nintendo and The Pokemon Company (7528390, 7493117 and 7505854). Kurihara noted that amending an existing patent for specific litigation purposes is an established industry practice, and possibly what happened in this particular case.

This does not make sense to me.

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