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Pocketpair already demoed gliding Pals in June 2021 — six months prior to Nintendo’s original patent application on switching riding objects!
Read more: Pocketpair already demoed gliding Pals in June 2021 — six months prior to Nintendo’s original patent application on switching riding objects!In order to give Nintendo no chance to sue over a forthcoming U.S: patent, Pocketpair removed a feature from Palworld that it had already demoed in 2021.
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Pocketpair presents moving-target challenge to Nintendo’s patent assertions, which annoy gamers but may ultimately make zero impact
Read more: Pocketpair presents moving-target challenge to Nintendo’s patent assertions, which annoy gamers but may ultimately make zero impactNintendo’s patent assertions against Palworld have led to further changes to gameplay in an effort by Pocketpair to eliminate any litigation risks.
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U.S. appeals court finally decides Microsoft legitimately acquired Activision Blizzard: FTC loses by ultrawide margin
Read more: U.S. appeals court finally decides Microsoft legitimately acquired Activision Blizzard: FTC loses by ultrawide marginThe Federal Trade Commission unsucessfully appealed a district court’s denial of a preliminary injunction against Microsoft’s 2023 acquisition of Activision Blizzard King.
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Pocketpair’s defenses against Nintendo’s patent lawsuit unpacked: ARK, Craftopia, Zelda, FF14 etc. may render asserted patents invalid
Read more: Pocketpair’s defenses against Nintendo’s patent lawsuit unpacked: ARK, Craftopia, Zelda, FF14 etc. may render asserted patents invalidOn games fray’s behalf, a Japanese lawyer today visited the Tokyo District court to look at the Nintendo v. Pocketpair case file. Now we can summarize Pocketpair’s key arguments.
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Nintendo secures two more anti-Palworld U.S. patents, might file multi-patent U.S. lawsuit against Pocketpair in a matter of months now
Read more: Nintendo secures two more anti-Palworld U.S. patents, might file multi-patent U.S. lawsuit against Pocketpair in a matter of months nowNintendo has recently received a third U.S: patent it might want to assert against Palworld, and a fourth one is now a mere formality.
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Yesterday Nintendo received a U.S. version of another anti-Palworld patent and asked the U.S. patent office for an interview to get a third patent
Read more: Yesterday Nintendo received a U.S. version of another anti-Palworld patent and asked the U.S. patent office for an interview to get a third patentNintendo and The Pokémon Company received two new U.S. patents yesterday, one of which is from a patent family Nintendo is using against Palworld in Japan.
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Nintendo grappling with hard choice after U.S. patent office overwhelmingly rejected anti-Palworld patent application
Read more: Nintendo grappling with hard choice after U.S. patent office overwhelmingly rejected anti-Palworld patent applicationThis is the fourth part of our “explain it to me like I’m five” series on Nintendo v. Pocketpair (the Pokémon-Palworld patent infringement dispute). In the first three parts, we discussed Nintendo has sued Pocketpair only in Japan. But as other observers have said before us (on X and elsewhere), Nintendo has done something similar with U.S….
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Two of Nintendo’s three patents-in-suit against Pocketpair relate to collecting characters: let’s look at the claims
Read more: Two of Nintendo’s three patents-in-suit against Pocketpair relate to collecting characters: let’s look at the claimsThis is the third part of our “explain it to me like I’m five” series on Nintendo v. Pocketpair (the Pokémon-Palworld patent dispute). In the first two parts, we discussed how it is possible that Nintendo asserts patents for which it applied only after Palworld’s launch (January 23, 2025 games fray article), and why a Japanese patent…
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- Pocketpair already demoed gliding Pals in June 2021 — six months prior to Nintendo’s original patent application on switching riding objects!
- Pocketpair presents moving-target challenge to Nintendo’s patent assertions, which annoy gamers but may ultimately make zero impact
- U.S. appeals court finally decides Microsoft legitimately acquired Activision Blizzard: FTC loses by ultrawide margin
- Pocketpair’s defenses against Nintendo’s patent lawsuit unpacked: ARK, Craftopia, Zelda, FF14 etc. may render asserted patents invalid
- Nintendo secures two more anti-Palworld U.S. patents, might file multi-patent U.S. lawsuit against Pocketpair in a matter of months now