“Truly Unfortunate”: Palworld Dev Pocketpair Issues Statement After Being Sued by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for Patent Infringement

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Pocketpair, the Japanese developer best known for its 2024 action-adventure, survival, and monster-taming game, Palworld, has announced that it will begin the appropriate legal proceedings and investigations into claims of patent infringement following the announcement yesterday from Nintendo and The Pokémon Company about how they've filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, alleging infringement of "multiple patents" and intellectual property.

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Honestly who this really is going to suck for is the people who bought the game that if I recall correctly is online only. Especially if they get shut down.
 
Will be interesting to see how this goes. Palworld has made a truckload of cash and Microsoft grabbed onto it as an Xbox success story.

But yeah - it’s so obviously a blatant ripoff that can’t possibly win in any court other than a kangaroo court.

There’s enough cash and horsepower that a deal might get cut after some back and forth in the courtroom. Palworld will probably “adjust some assets” and cut a fat check in the end if my guess.

The interesting part is Palworld has probably made 90% of all the money they are gonna make - it isn’t a live service game or has a deep cash shop — although it may end up getting one after all of this. Not sure if the devs behind it have another hit in the tank or not.
 
Grimlakin said:
Honestly who this really is going to suck for is the people who bought the game that if I recall correctly is online only. Especially if they get shut down.
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Its not online only. You can play locally, you can also host your own server. So if they take it down, assuming they don't forcefully delete it from your steam library and you got a good copy of it installed as well as a server installed then you can play locally or with friends without anything from them I believe. Just have to direct connect to the IP each time.

However, this is a PATENT infringement lawsuit, not a copyright one. Which means they're going after them for something Nintendo patented such as "Pal spheres" which are basically pokeballs or the storage system for the Pals, or something else.

Which based on this:
gamerant.com

Nintendo Patent Approved in August Could Be What It Uses Against Palworld

A Japanese IP attorney highlights a patent family that might be at the center of Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair.
gamerant.com gamerant.com

Nintendo filed for this patent THIS YEAR and was awarded the patent. Talk about a sleeseball move on Nintendo. Like seriously, I don't think I'm ever going to buy a Nintendo product again. Screw those greedy bastages.
 
You can't protect a patent that has previously been used as open source or free ideas. It's too late. That work can continue to exist and evolve at least in most US courts that I know of. But I'm no lawyer.
 
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