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Here are the patents Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are suing Palworld over (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah the newer they are, the more frivolous they are

Filing for patent on a mechanic that's been in the public for 28 years already is disingenuous as fuck. Pokemon started in 1996. The throw a ball at it thing has been out there for nearly 30 years. If you have filed a patent for it in all that time... and just now choose to. That's just dumb. If they were to have applied for the patent the day that pokemon was thing in the USA... The patent would have expired 8 years ago. It's untenable to accept these patents from Nintendo.