Palworld developer Pocketpair has revealed details of Nintendo and The Pokémon Company's lawsuit which alleges that the game infringes on multiple patents.
Looking through the first one’s content and it seems reasonable? The patent’s abstract is supposed to be as widely applicable as legally permitted, so it’s like a completely different language on top of legalese.
For reference, the allegedly infringing patents are these:
How do these not apply to the majority of games, these sound so insanely broad. Patents are so stupid.
Sony has a patent for an input device having two data streams at once
usb has more i think.
They only apply to games from Japan. This is the Japanese patent system.
But why in english if it’s (seemingly) domestic only.
Are they mandated to submit in English?
Holy hell.
Even by the standard of “all software patents are nonsense”, these are a fucking joke.
It basically hits any game with mounts or vehicles.
Hold my bacon, one can patent the idea that a game character switches mounts depending on a given state? (Image 3)
Seems like it. So when you come down from the sky on your flying mount and get close to the ground, you swap to a horse mount for example.
How can one patent this… wtf!
Looking through the first one’s content and it seems reasonable? The patent’s abstract is supposed to be as widely applicable as legally permitted, so it’s like a completely different language on top of legalese.