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Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating (kotaku.com)
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[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 148 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (19 children)

Patent No. 7545191

  • [Patent application date: July 30, 2024]
  • [Patent registration date: August 27, 2024]
  • Relates to a player character throwing an item at a character in the field, which triggers combat.

Patent No. 7493117

  • [Patent application date: February 26, 2024]
  • [Patent registration date: May 22, 2024]
  • Basically an extension of the above, relating to being able to capture Pokémon in the wild rather than just in combat like previous generations.

Patent No. 7528390

  • [Patent application date: March 5, 2024]
  • [Patent registration date: July 26, 2024]
  • Relating to being able to ride creatures in the open world.

Note that every single one of these patents was filed after palworld was released, and they're all awfully vague about what they actually cover.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.blahaj.zone 101 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

How such generic features are even awarded patents is beyond me. None of these are even remotely exclusive to Pokemon or Palworld.

EDIT The grossest thing about this is that these patents were all filed this year, meaning they were filed with the exclusive intention of building a case against Palworld. There really is no level to which Nintendo won't stoop.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Nintendo will do anything except create a good Pokémon game.

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