Comment on Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 6 days ago
The three patents—all filed in Japan between May and July 2024—draw similarities between Palworld and 2022’s 2022’s Pokémon Legends: Arceus specifically. Their descriptions concern game mechanics like “riding an object” or throwing a ball to capture and possess a character in virtual spaces.
Wait…so the patents didn’t even exist when Palworld was released into EA? or am I missing something?
Telorand@reddthat.com 6 days ago
You’re not, but there’s a preexisting patent, and these three are basically extensions of that patent.
Essentially, Palworld needed to know what supplementary payments Nintendo was going to file in the future in Japan so they didn’t run afoul of the patent from the past. You know, textbook legal psychic stuff, really. /s
I hope Nintendo hurts itself in its confusion as its lawyers flail before the Japanese courts.
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Has Phoenix Wright been a documentary about the Japanese legal system this entire time, and we just wrote it off?
Telorand@reddthat.com 5 days ago
Tbh, if this is how Japan does patent law, it’s a wonder they have as much technological progress as they do.
TanyaJLaird@beehaw.org 5 days ago
Japan is a country that has been living in the year 2005 since 1985.
authorinthedark@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
that’s what I was told
captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
"Oh, haven’t they told you, palworld? That patent report is O U T D A T E D