US EditionNintendo and The Pokémon Company's Monster Capture Patent Rejected, May Signal Problems for Their Palworld Lawsuit
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Nintendo and The Pokémon Company's Monster Capture Patent Rejected, May Signal Problems for Their Palworld Lawsuit
Nintendo has run into another issue during its ongoing legal battle against Pocketpair’s open-world survival game Palworld. As reported by GamesFray, one of the Nintendo patents related to the case has been rejected by the Japan Patent Office (JPO) for lacking originality.Back in September 2024, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company officially announced they were filing a patent infringement lawsuit in Japan against Pocketpair’s open-world survival g…
In September last year, Nintendo had sued the Pocketpair studio, developers of Palworld, claiming that monster capture mechanics violated Nintendo’s patents. However, it later became known that Nintendo had applied for these patents during the development of Palworld, not before, so Pocketpair decided to move forward with the dispute.
In the last chapter of the ongoing legal battle between Nintendo and Pocketpair on the similarities between World Pal
NewsGaming.net A patent filed by Nintendo for the capture of creatures was refused in Japan, which could benefit Palworld Very protective of its licenses, sometimes overtly, Nintendo engaged in a legal arm with Pocketpair following the release of Palworld, in order to show that this game violated some patents that were being deposited at the manufacturer. Among the patents that posed a problem is the one filed in March 2024, which describes a ch…
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