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Pocketpair Confirms Which Patents Nintendo And The Pokemon Company Are Suing It Over (www.thegamer.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/games@lemmy.world

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Pocketpair goes on to say that Palworld has been claimed to infringe on three patents held by Nintendo and The Pokemon Company and that part of the damage is required as compensation.

The first patent is one that most had guessed to be part of the case, as 7545191 refers to the process of capturing and befriending Pokemon, which Palworld apes with its Pal Spheres. The other two patents that are included in the lawsuit, 7493117 and 7528390 haven't been found and detailed just yet, but they're likely also mechanics in Pokemon games that are replicated in Palworld.

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[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

How have the patents not been found when we know the numbers? Is looking up patents that messed up of a process?

[-] egerlach@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago

They're Japanese patents, so maybe they're already circulating in Japanese media and haven't been translated yet.

Alternatively, maybe the Japanese Patent Office requires you to follow some bureaucratic process to get a copy: like you have to be a lawyer and it takes 4-6 weeks to get your reply. I don't know, but Japan just finally got rid of its last laws requiring floppy disks for certain processes a few years back, so it's not out of the realm of possibility

I'm sure we'll hear the details soon.