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Nintendo Is Seemingly Suing Palworld Over A Pokeball Patent

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:George Foster

Published Sep 21, 2024

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Earlier this week, Nintendo surprised us all but revealing that it's suing Palworld developer Pocketpair.
Nintendo claimed the lawsuit is due to Palworld infringing on "multiple patent rights" but didn't reveal which ones.
It seems that at least one of the infringed patent rights is a Pokeball patent that was filed this Summer and added to an existing patent from 2021.

hasn't officially confirmed why it's suing deve🍸loper Pocketpair, but it seems that it could be based on a Pokeball patent and how Palworld's Palspheres directly copy the mechanic.

Just a few days ago, Nintendo dropped an absolute bombshell on the internet by revealing that it's suing Pa🌺lworld deve🅺loper Pockepair. While nearly everyone speculated that might happen wheꦏᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚn the game released earlier this year and took a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:lot of liberties with its Pal designsꦬ, the real shock came .

A monster from Palworld firing a move from its hand

How Is Palworld Different From Other Clones? ♎

If Nintendo is succ♏essful, it will set a dangerous precedent for the future of the games industry.

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Pocketpair has since replied to the lawsuit and confirmed that it's going to be fi🎃ghting it, despite apparently not knowing what patents it's𝔉 infringing on. hasn't revealed any more details about the situation just yet, but it seems that it might be based on a Pokeball patent that 💦was originally filed in 2021 and then updated in the Summer.

Nintendo Might Be Suing Palworld Over A Pokeball Patent

A Pokeball patent filed by Nintendo. — Source: Eurogamer
Image credit: Patent No. 7545191, owned by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company.

, this information comes from Japanese patent attorney Kiyoshi Kurihara🌱, . As you can see above, the patent is centred around how a Pokeball works as a capture item and how a succಞessful capture results in it being "owned by the player".

Of course, it doesn't take a genius to figure ou♌t that Palworld's Palspheres, which work in the exact same way and only differentiate with the name and design, would be infringing on the patent. According to Kurihara, the patent, which was jointly filed by The Pokemon Company and Nintendo, was added to an existing "parent" patent from December 2021 in the Summer of this year♐.

This makes the added on patent seem like a direct response to Palworld and one of the main reasons why Nintendo is suing Pocketpair. It also means that the patent can be used by Nintendo in the lawsuit ဣand is likely one of the "multiple patent rights" it claims Pockepair is infringing on in Palworld.

"[It's a] kill﷽er patent. It seems like it would be hard to avoid if y൲ou want to make a Pokémon-like game, and it's easy to infringe if you're not careful."

It's worth noting that Nintendo's claim is focused on "multiple" patents it 𓃲feels Pocketpair are infringing on, so there's likely a 🃏bit more to the story than just the Pokeball one shown above. Since Nintendo hasn't revealed anything else so far, though, it's the best guess that any of us have about the situation.