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[Wastelander92]

News Release : Sep. 19, 2024 "Filing Lawsuit for Infringement of Patent Rights against Pocketpair, Inc."

Press release of Nintendo Co., Ltd.

www.nintendo.co.jp

 

[Clintizzle]

 

[Mister Wolf]

It's about time. They let them build up a decent amount of money to take.

 

[EviLore]

Waited until they finished collecting all their revenue, to take it all back in court.

 

[RoboFu]

lol .. they waited to make it worthwhile. That's cold Nintendo but I approve.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

"A Nintendo lawyer is never late, Yamaguchi, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to!"

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

What patents?

 

[bender]

 

[Magic Carpet]

Patents are usually for a couple of decades. How long has Pokemon been around?

 

[nial]

This is SonyMusic's territory, Nintendo has been warned of it.

 

[LakeOf9]

But who even cares about Palworld anymore?

"A Nintendo lawyer is never late, Yamaguchi, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to!"

This is amazing

 

[A.Romero]

Fuck that.

It's a shame, IMO. It's like if Capcom or SNK sued Mortal Kombat devs because it's a fighting game with assists

 

[BennyBlanco]

 

[Muffdraul]

Can't say I really blame them.

 

[Buggy Loop]

If I were the palworld devs, I would shit my pants. No matter if it doesn't make sense, Nintendo typically wins.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

It's about time. They let them build up a decent amount of money to take.

Counter is with all that money they can probably get themselves a decent legal team

 

[cash_longfellow]

Nintendo a bunch of assholes. Why does this really matter? Palworld isn’t taking anyone away from the Nintendo cult. People who give a shit about tired ass Pokemon, will remain there in the concrete room in your basement Nintendo, I promise. Chill tf out

 

[AtomicStarving]

 

[DrDryRub]

Nintendo won't win, Palworld isn't a 1 for 1 copy. Nintendo would have to sue every other monster collecting RPG game then .

 

[Gideon]

Rooting for palworld.

 

[Puscifer]

Fuck that.

It's a shame, IMO. It's like if Capcom or SNK sued Mortal Kombat devs because it's a fighting game with assists

TBH, Palworld has been proven to be outright tracing designs I'm not shocked at all

 

[ManaByte]

 

[LectureMaster]

 

[dreamstation]

Fuck Nintendo. They don't allow anyone to have fun.

 

[Gambit2483]

As expected

 

[Mister Wolf]

Nintendo a bunch of assholes. Why does this really matter? Palworld isn’t taking anyone away from the Nintendo cult. People who give a shit about tired ass Pokemon, will remain there in the concrete room in your basement Nintendo, I promise. Chill tf out

 

[Revolutionary]

 

[onQ123]

Pocketpair and Sony announces a new joint venture company “Palworld Entertainment”

www.neogaf.com

 

[Azelover]

"A Nintendo lawyer is never late, Yamaguchi, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to!"

Yamaguchi or Yamauchi?

 

[Anthony Soprano]

Nintendo won't win, Palworld isn't a 1 for 1 copy. Nintendo would have to sue every other monster collecting RPG game then .

They'll still drain them financially via the long and drawn out litigation process.

TBH, Palworld has been proven to be outright tracing designs I'm not shocked at all

I thought this was a hoax and proven false.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Waited until they finished collecting all their revenue, to take it all back in court.

A masterstroke by Nintendo lawyers.

 

[FF:Enhanced_Reality]

I'm not convinced they'll win.

 

[Zephyranthes]

I know nothing about Japanese patent law, so I'd be curious to hear an expert take on this one. What's the likelihood that Nintendo would actually win this case, or are they just going for a settlement?

 

[Danjin44]

Nintendo a bunch of assholes. Why does this really matter? Palworld isn’t taking anyone away from the Nintendo cult. People who give a shit about tired ass Pokemon, will remain there in the concrete room in your basement Nintendo, I promise. Chill tf out

And so is other companies, you are mistaking thinking they are your friend.

They will do what it takes to protect their IP it doesn't matter if its justified or not and not just Nintendo, every companies will do the same.

 

[Puscifer]

They'll still drain them financially via the long and drawn out litigation process.


I thought this was a hoax and proven false.

Maybe in a few cases but they straight up traced over 3D switch models at times

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Patent rights? That has me curious. I'm not familiar with how broadly Japan construes patent rights, but this is presumably not the claim that so many assumed Nintendo would bring against the Palworld devs back when the game first launched.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

The creators of Donkey KONG suing anyone for copyright infringement is fucking rich.


Also:

 

[Majukun]

didn't they explicitly said they would not do it?

 

[kazuyamishima]

I dunno Nintendo, a lot of Pokémon’s were inspired/ripped off from Dragon Quest.

 

[Holammer]

Maybe in a few cases but they straight up traced over 3D switch models at times

It was bull every time, one guy even massaged the results just to ride on the public adoration on Twitter. Same goes for AI accusations.




"This only matters to you if you ignored all the other actual 3D artists who literally already debunked this"

 

[Gaiff]

Waited until they finished collecting all their revenue, to take it all back in court.

Why sue someone broke when you can sue someone rich lol?

 

[ssringo]

Patent infringement? That's not where I thought a lawsuit would go...

Maybe it's over the monster in a ball capture mechanic?

 

[LordOcidax]

This is cool

 

[Gaiff]

didn't they explicitly said they would not do it?

 

[envyzeal]

get rekt

 

[Puscifer]

It was bull every time, one guy even massaged the results just to ride on the public adoration on Twitter. Same goes for AI accusations.




"This only matters to you if you ignored all the other actual 3D artists who literally already debunked this"

I rescind my post. I never knew he pulled back on it and this Reddit post isn't any new article updates.

 

[killatopak]

I wish everyone had the same fervor of suing Nintendo for every miniscule possibility of plagiarism they had done.

 

[Tertullian]

Patents? Not copyright? That sounds dumb. What patents are we talking about? What about Pokemon's generic-ass JRPG mechanics (which Palworld doesn't even particularly resemble) is patentable? Or is this some kind of technology patent that Palworld's devs infringed on… somehow?

Maybe I'm wrong and I just don't understand patents. But my first instinct is that Nintendo is butthurt that Palworld parodied them, decided they couldn't win a copyright lawsuit, and so they decided to throw a patent lawsuit at them to punish them anyway.

 

[Saber]

This gonna be a fun case. It basically gonna involve any monster or creature as stealing if end up being true, because not even Pokemon itself has originality with their own as some of their monsters resemble alot other franchises(DQ comes to mind).

 

[ZehDon]

Given the amount of guns in PalWorld, I imagine it'll be a hard argument for Nintendo to win infringement - they're clearly quite separate - but it's not impossible. Nintendo doesn't fuck around in the courtroom.