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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 2 months ago by picandocodigo to c/nintendo

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[–] peopleproblems 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months 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.

[–] NOT_RICK 9 points 2 months ago

An inventory system, WAOW

[–] nonprofitparrot 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

@peopleproblems

[–] nonprofitparrot 2 points 2 months 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 2 months 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.