@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 2 months agoNintendo and the Pokémon Company filing Lawsuit for Infringement of Patent Rights against Pocketpair, Inc. (Palworld)www.nintendo.co.jpexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: hackernews[email protected][email protected]
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkNintendo and the Pokémon Company filing Lawsuit for Infringement of Patent Rights against Pocketpair, Inc. (Palworld)www.nintendo.co.jp@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 2 months agomessage-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews[email protected][email protected]
minus-squarepeopleproblemslinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 months agoPatent rights? You gotta be kidding me. The hell did they patent? Throwing a ball?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•edit-22 months agoAlmost literally. They patented: catching characters in thrown balls calling on characters by throwing a ball using captured characters to fight and harvest resources
minus-squareMatija Šukljelinkfedilink0•2 months ago@nonprofitparrot, if you have the links to the patents at hand, it would be grand if you can share them. @peopleproblems
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•2 months agoScroll 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.
minus-squareMatija Šukljelinkfedilink0•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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•2 months agoApparently, 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.
Patent rights? You gotta be kidding me. The hell did they patent? Throwing a ball?
Almost literally. They patented:
catching characters in thrown balls
calling on characters by throwing a ball
using captured characters to fight and harvest resources
@nonprofitparrot, if you have the links to the patents at hand, it would be grand if you can share them.
@peopleproblems
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.
@nonprofitparrot thank you.
Interesting. I wonder if those are about the Pokeball controller/peripheral (more likely given the time) or the in-game throwing.
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.
An inventory system, WAOW