Month: September 2025
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Nintendo’s summoning patent: Windows Central, PC Gamer got right what The Verge and a law prof got wrong — and let’s look at a 50-year-old game
An article by The Verge spreads falsehoods about Nintendo’s new summoning patent due to insufficient research. Here’s a follow-up that also brings up a 1978 console game.
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Tencent says Sony “utterly fails” to make case against Light of Motiram, wants to monopolize old ideas; court should read Steam comments
On Steam. gamers considered Horizon Zero Dawn to bear a strong resemblance to Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Tencent argues in its motion to dismiss Sony’s U.S. case.
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GROSS: In Palworld patent case, Nintendo tells Japanese judge mods should not count as prior art because they can’t run without underlying games
Nintendo’s position on mods effectively means that modders would be unprotected against someone looking at their works and taking out patents.
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Last week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company received a U.S. patent on summoning a character and letting it fight another
Nintendo’s patenting strategy is expansive and aggressive.