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Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. (www.nintendo.co.jp)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Patent infringement? Did they patent "beat up thing, throw ball at thing, capture thing?"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They seem to have a patent for "Pokemon Box Storage" and palworld also has a "Palbox" so maybe that?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Their list of patents is enormous. They could throw darts drunk and in the dark, miss the board completely, and still likely land on something they could claim.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

This is a weird patent; it seems to be describing something more akin to Pokemon Home than an actual in-game mechanic, but then the references talk about the pokemon storage system, so who knows?

[+] [email protected] -37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Maybe not on that, but the creatures in Palworld are sometimes a direct ripoff of Pokémon. I'm with Nintendo on this one.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That's irrelevant. You can't patent fantasy creatures. That's a copyright issue. If they were suing for copyright infringement I might think they had a point, but they're not.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

I think the fact they're going for a patent suit says they probably think they don't have enough of an argument for a copyright suit which kind of makes sense. Just because the designs are similar doesn't mean it's copyright infringement.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh no, both the wolves look like wolves. Never mind they have different color schemes and geometry; look, they're both wolves!

I approached the claims with an open mind, but when I read that the worst offender was the wolf I realized that none of the claims could possibly hold water.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Maybe they should try making a good pokemon game instead

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nintendo should file a lawsuit against my entire ass

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Tattoo a Pikachu on there and get enough likes on tiktok and they might.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Kind of surprised it took this long to be honest. Also a little surprised it's a patent lawsuit, but then again it might be easier to prove infringement on a gameplay concept you have patented rather than copyright.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This isn't some guy who has loved their products for years and wanted to express how much joy he's had from them by writing a comic about them - they can't just go sue them immediately. This is a corporation, they have to make sure that it's the right move. Come on, that's Corpo 101