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Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Well that took a while but its finally here.

But also incoming Moon channel video now

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (14 children)

infringes multiple patent rights

What exactly is infringed here? I don't see Palworld infringing anything Nintendo does (no its not sarcasm).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Only thing I can think of are maybe the catching mechanics (which are straight out of Legends: Arceus). No idea if these would be considered unique enough to be patentable, guess we'll find out.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They literally tried to patent the loading screen and mechanically locking a player object to a moving object ingame just after the release of TotK. Nintendo is the absolute king of frivolous gaming patents. Here's hoping it's their downfall. For an example of how seriously vague some of the patents they've been granted are, check out some of their current ones after pokemon sleep's initial success (basically trying to keep everyone without 9 digit money out of the sleep app game space).

https://patents.justia.com/assignee/the-pokemon-company

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In a case where a second camera operation through a third input unit using an inertial sensor is performed while a pointer operation process based on a pointer operation through a first input unit or a camera operation process based on a first camera operation through a second input unit is performed, an absolute value of a quantity of change in a position or an image capturing direction of a virtual camera based on the second camera operation is reduced as compared with a case where the second camera operation is performed when neither of the pointer operation process based on the pointer operation and the camera operation process based on the first camera operation are performed.

Holy mother of long sentences

Those patent abstracts are wild.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Eh, that's pretty normal for a patent.

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