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[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

These patents were granted to Nintendo this year.

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not patent savvy - of they are only granted this year (as a point of origin for the patents' eventually expiry), wouldn't the years of previous Pokemon games invalidate these patents due to prior art?

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

If they were related to the original games, yes it would. The patents were about 3d worlds though. I believe the palworld beta was before these patents were filed, so there would be a strong case to invalidate them. It probably won't happen, because Nintendo's proposed damages was basically pocket change compared to a legal battle.