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Nintendo and the Pokémon Company filing Lawsuit for Infringement of Patent Rights against Pocketpair, Inc. (Palworld) (www.nintendo.co.jp)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

The clapback:

We have received notice of this lawsuit and will begin the appropriate legal proceedings and investigations into the claims of patent infringement.

At this moment, we are unaware of the specific patents we are accused of infringing upon, and we have not been notified of such details.

https://www.pocketpair.jp/news/news16

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Patent rights? You gotta be kidding me. The hell did they patent? Throwing a ball?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

An inventory system, WAOW

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Almost literally. They patented:

catching characters in thrown balls
calling on characters by throwing a ball
using captured characters to fight and harvest resources

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@nonprofitparrot, if you have the links to the patents at hand, it would be grand if you can share them.

@peopleproblems

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

@nonprofitparrot thank you.

Interesting. I wonder if those are about the Pokeball controller/peripheral (more likely given the time) or the in-game throwing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Nintendo can suck a dick with their shovelware games