Japanese Patent Office Rejects Nintendo Patent Linked to Palworld Dispute in Rare Sharp Tone
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JPO Rejects Nintendo Patent In Palworld Case
The Japan Patent Office has rejected Nintendo patent application 2024-031879 – a filing that sits structurally between two patents currently being asserted against Pocketpair in the Tokyo District Court – for lack of inventive step, citing prior art from games including ARK, Monster Hunter 4, Craftopia, Kantai Collection, and Pokémon GO itself, as reported by Techdirt. Here’s the context: When Nintendo and The Pokémon Company filed their Japanes…
Even Japan's patent officials seem exhausted with Nintendo's antics as they refuse its 'absurd' defense of a rejected Pokémon patent
While Nintendo has a long and infamous history of petty litigiousness, its recent efforts to secure a series of Pokémon-related patents have been particularly obnoxious—obnoxious enough that even the Japan Patent Office seems like its patience for the publisher's quibbling is wearing thin.Earlier this month, Japanese patent examiners issued a rebuke of Nintendo's objections to a Patent Office's prior rejections of one of the publisher's Pokémon …
Even the Japanese patent office is now probably fed up with the ongoing litigation between Nintendo and Palworld developer Pocketpair.
Palworld made the 1.0 release despite Nintendo's lawsuit. Now the company is even worse behind Pokémon in the lawsuit, because the Japanese office has rejected an unusually clear patent. What kind of patent has been cancelled now? Nintendo and The Pokémon Company recently had a few unaudited filings at the Japanese Patent Office. Patent JP,2026-077713,A has now been rejected unusually clearly. This is about an in-game system with which monsters …
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