World of Final Fantasy is as close to a Pokemon rip off as you can get, and they didn’t get sued.
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june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours agoThey said patent violations, not copyright, so it is about some sort of mechanic or system and not the pals or any specific designs. I’m guessing the thrown ball capture system, since it seems no other developers have published anything using that specifically.
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
RogueAozame@programming.dev 16 hours ago
They shouldnt be able to sue for that cause a patent only lasts for 20 years in Japan. I saw some guesses that there might be a patent for one of their legends games that they are suing for.