Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted September 19, 2024 Diamond Member Share Posted September 19, 2024 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up / Artist's conception of Pocketpair lawyers establishing a defensive position against Nintendo's coming legal onslaught. (credit: Pocketpair) [/url] Nintendo and The Pokemon Company This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up they have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair, the makers of the heavily Pokémon-inspired Palworld. The Tokyo District Court lawsuit seeks an injunction and damages "on the grounds that Palworld infringes multiple patent rights" according to the announcement. "Nintendo will continue to take necessary actions against any infringement of its intellectual property rights including the Nintendo brand itself, to protect the intellectual properties it has worked hard to establish over the years," the company writes. The many surface similarities between Pokémon and Palworld are readily apparent, even though Pocketpair's game adds many new features over Nintendo's (such as, uh, guns). But making legal hay over even heavy common ground between games This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . That's because copyright law (at least in the US) This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , and only extends to "expressive elements" such as art, character design, and music. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up | This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/129774-steam-nintendo-the-pokemon-company-sue-palworld-maker-pocketpair/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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