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Patent No. 7545191
- [Patent application date: July 30, 2024]
- [Patent registration date: August 27, 2024]
- Relates to a player character throwing an item at a character in the field, which triggers combat.
Patent No. 7493117
- [Patent application date: February 26, 2024]
- [Patent registration date: May 22, 2024]
- Basically an extension of the above, relating to being able to capture Pokémon in the wild rather than just in combat like previous generations.
Patent No. 7528390
- [Patent application date: March 5, 2024]
- [Patent registration date: July 26, 2024]
- Relating to being able to ride creatures in the open world.
Note that every single one of these patents was filed after palworld was released, and they’re all awfully vague about what they actually cover.
By the third patent: Elden Ring, WoW, Everquest, Neverwinter, SW: The Old Republic, Final Fantasy, and many many others have infringed Nintendo patents. Fuck Nintendo.
Nintendo: they violated our patents!
Court: which ones?
Nintendo: (scribbling furiously on paper) these ones!
Checks out.
They are all bullshit, but holy fuck, how the hell were they even allowed to register the third one ?
It’s a little more specific than that, like it has something to do with a way they attempted to streamline the process of switching between mounted and on-foot.
But yeah, still bullshit.
I’ll take “shit you shouldn’t be able to patent” for 1000 alex.
You could argue GTA violates this patent, I throw bullets at dudes and it “triggers combat” \s
Software patents usually are shitty like that. And weirdly “state or the art” doesn’t seem to apply to them. Their only purpose is trolling your competition and the consumer is left with fewer and poorer choices and higher prices due to royalty costs.
One of the most infamous examples is Microsoft filing a patent for the mouse double click in 2002, getting it granted in 2004 while the thing was actually developed before the 80s (and not by Microsoft, of course).
I question the usefulness for society of patents in general but software patents especially should be abolished.
You might look at the dates Pocketpair gave there (which are correct) and think — well, they were filed after, so how can Nintendo sue using those? The answer is complicated. What Pocketpair don’t say, is that these patents are from a parent patent[1] which was registered in 2021 and approved in 2023, meaning it very much does end up applying here to Palworld.
That last patent is bullshit, are they going to sue every game that has horse mounts? This is from 1981, and has mounts.
I’m starting to wonder if Nintendo paid some patent officer off. All of these should have never been approved.
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HOW DID THEY GET THESE PATENTS APPROVED SO FAST???
I have a patent from a previous job. The initial filing was in 2007. It wasn’t approved until 2010, almost a year after I had moved on to a different employer.
Money. Bribable law makes anything go faster.
Parents are in Japan.
Did you work in Japan?
#1 is doom. You throw a grenade at an IMP on the field and it starts the fight.
