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After doing som research I have a feeling that Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are suing PocketPair over an assumed infringement based on Nintendo and TPC's shared JP7545191B1 patent regarding character interactions and catching characters, there also two other patents (US20240100432 and US11782898B) that could be an issue as well.
 
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Lammy said:
This is why your game is already over, ripoff child. Enjoy litigation.

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From what I'm hearing, it's over gameplay mechanics, not designs.
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Oh god I don't want this discussion to flare up again. It's hard to overstate just how retarded both sides are in this case.

The pro-Palworlders are ex-Pokemon fans that want to see the Pokemon company destroyed because Game Freak hasn't released a game they liked in years. Literal man children unable to accept the fact that the part of them that wants a new Pokemon game is their inner-child because "I'm a big strong man and I definitely don't want to have fun playing with Pokemon like I did when I was a kid, no sirree. I'm mad about this for purely philosophical reasons!"

And the pro-Nintendoers, who in contrast have held on to their inner-child too strongly and refuse to accept that they are adults with moral responsibilities and agency, and defend Pokemon to their dying breath because any attack in Pokemon is perceived as a direct attack on them and their younger self.

I am not surprised Nintendo filed a patent lawsuit against Pocket Pair, Nintendo has a surprising amount of technologies for games patented. In the context of board games, you can not patent a game mechanic, however in the context of a video game, you can patent the technology which makes a game mechanic function. For example, the vocaloid-esque voice synthesis in Animal Crossing (called Animalese) is patented by Nintendo.

I don't really like that patent law works this way, however there is the upside that patents only last for a relatively short time compared to copyright. I think there is a decent chance Pocket Pair will lose the lawsuit, which I think is a bad thing in the context of artistic development.
 
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The Lawgiver said:
It's kind of fucked up how nintendo's now literally doing the same thing they're known for having to fight universal over to smaller game companies (Donkey Kong being based on king kong) . Part of me wonders though if this was goaded into being by the spam false reports to them by twitter/reddit types.

EDIT: Also where the fuck were nintendo's lawyers when every fucking company ever was doing pokemon inspired game designs or pokemon clones during the 90s-2000s huh? There's a FUCKING ANIMORPHS ONE.
ANIMORPHS IS NOT A LICENSE YOU WOULD LOOK AT AND GO "HMM YEAH, POKEMON!" BUT NO IT'S POKEMON. THE STINKIEST KNOCKOFF IMAGINABLE. DID THAT ONE "JUST GET A PASS JUST BECAUSE IT WAS GAMEBOY"? OK WHAT ABOUT THE MILLIONS OF NON NINTENDO CONSOLE GAMES THAT ARE POKEMON CLONES THEN?
WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOUR LAWYERS NINTENDO?:stickup:
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The developers are based in Japan where corporations rule as king. It's Nintendo's turf over there as far as they're concerned.
 
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Nintendo is a classic case of strong arming anyone they get the chance to, I'd be shocked if nintendo fags aren't set up in the parking lot writing down the license plate of every car that parks in the parking lot of whatever building the palworld devs are operating out of. They have the money to act like retards, so they will. I really hope palworld gets them to shut the fuck up with this kind of thing.
 
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umseriously said:
The developers are based in Japan where corporations rule as king. It's Nintendo's turf over there as far as they're concerned.
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As I said there are ones other than this, A FUCKTON OF THEM BEING JAPANESE COMPANIES AND STUDIOS. OVER 2 DECADES OF POKEMON CLONES.
 
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Nintendo has not made a good new Pokemon game in over ten years, and the moment competition shows up, they have to run to Daddy Nippo to tell the competition to fuck off, all the while their next console is likely just the equivalent of the DSi XL of the Switch.

If there's any positive, it's that they ordered their holding company in the US to stop selling stocks to Blackrock.
 
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I once worked with a guy who was one of the mods for an anti-nintendo subreddit, they'd still buy all of Nintendo's games meanwhile seething about them on reddit with impotent rage and when I asked this massive faggot why he doesn't just emulate everything and promote emulation so at the very least they aren't giving Nintendo money, he tells me that piracy is bad because x,y,z generic, reddit-tier arguments. Down the line, I find out he actually just had no idea how to emulate. Despite reddit having like a million comprehensive guides on how to do everything regarding emulation, this redditor was so fucking stupid that he couldn't figure it out.

These are the kind of people who still give Nintendo money.
 
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Software and gameplay patents are fucking cancer. I remember when Namco patented loading screen mini-games despite not actually being the first to do it. The patent expired right around when loading screens became nonexistent or disguised. Unironically hope Pocket Pair win because "capturing and summoning creatures in and from balls" is not a fucking unique concept that should be 'owned' by a megacorp.
 
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The Lawgiver said:
As I said there are ones other than this, A FUCKTON OF THEM BEING JAPANESE COMPANIES AND STUDIOS. OVER 2 DECADES OF POKEMON CLONES.
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Patents are over specific designs, not their superficial appearances. You've been raging in this thread over several things that aren't the same except on a surface level. Regardless, we would have to at least see what they're suing for before anyone should start screeching about it or Nintendo''s reasons for it. Hell, for all we know it's something simple they can sidestep with ease and not even have to fight with them about.
 
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Sketchy Minecraft Mod said:
Japan is cucked by Nintendo so if this lawsuit is taking place in Japan which I presume it will, the Palworld devs are cooked.
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filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court against Pocketpair, Inc. (HQ: 2-10-2 Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, “Defendant” hereafter) on September 18, 2024.
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Yup, it's in Japan. And Japan is copycucked in general. Hope for a good outcome.
 
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Lammy said:
This is why your game is already over, ripoff child. Enjoy litigation.

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From what I'm hearing, it's over gameplay mechanics, not designs.
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So does nintendo just claim to own the concept of catching creatures and making them fight each other? The way palworld works isn't even like normal pokemon games. It seems clear to me that they're just trying to destroy them using the legal process for daring to make them look bad. Palworld is a piece of shit, but it's more fun than the last 4 pokemon games, with a fraction of the budget
 
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Archeops said:
After doing som research I have a feeling that Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are suing PocketPair over an assumed infringement based on Nintendo and TPC's shared JP7545191B1 patent regarding character interactions and catching characters, there also two other patents (US20240100432 and US11782898B) that could be an issue as well.
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....So it's fucking patent trolling then.
 
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