Nintendo secures two more anti-Palworld U.S. patents, might file multi-patent U.S. lawsuit against Pocketpair in a matter of months now – games fray
Nintendo secures two more anti-Palworld U.S. patents, might file multi-patent U.S. lawsuit against Pocketpair in a matter of months now – games fray
Receiving a patent after another company already made a product that would infringe that patent?
That sure sounds very legal :^)
The patent application that led to the ‘255 patent was filed in September 2022, more than a year before Palworld’s launch. But Nintendo made amendments to the claims throughout the process, also after Palworld had been launched. Finally, the patent issued this year.
I guess, this is what makes it complicated..
Said that, in my opinion, game design patents are BS, as it it hinders free creativity a lot
Almost all patents are BS. At least for how they currently work. Anything longer than a few years is just selfish capitalism.
God, I wouldn't even play the newer Pokémon games if I pirated them. Imagine being sued because somone thought you copied "Z-A", or whatever dumbass name the newest Pokémon game has. "Your honor, in my defense, my game isn't steaming hot shit, therefore I couldn't have copied Nintendo."
So, if you have enough money, you can just fire off a shitload of ex-post-facto patents after a competitor releases a prior-art product, sue them, and win using patents that didn't exist when the competitor's product was created????
Might as well just close the whole patent system and leave, there's quite literally no point to obeying it if you can so blatantly steal anything and everything.
It's about proving who was the original creator/user of the IP, instead of who is the first to file to have that IP protected.
The flipside of this would be having random holding companies just mass filing for ownership of everything posted online, said, written-down, or created, in the hopes that they get approved first so they can sue others, even the creators, for using it.
Look at the "very demure, very mindful" woman, Jools Lebron. Someone else (Jefferson Bates) file to trademark the saying because the original creator didn't think to until after it was viral. Because the laws are ultimately about proving who was the creator, and not who filed first in the USA, it's likely that Jools will get ownership, eventually.
They're called patent trolls and our busted system already has them
That's how it should work, yes, if Nintendo can demonstrate prior art. That's the first-to-invent system.
The US did change to first-to-file some years ago, but from the articles like this coming out, it sounds like they're still granting patents to the first inventor.
What's the point of trying to be legal if this is legal? It completely destroys any semblance of competition.
This is like the Streisand effect for making me want to pirate their content out of spite
I've just pirated all of their games for their not most recent console. Feels good man.
Thanks for reminding me to not buy the switch 2
Unfortunately nintendo lawyers are already on their way to send a cease and desist to OP for using their name in a lemmy post :(
Hypothetically, If I were working at pocket pair, I'd put 2M in crypto on the side to support a team of devs to hack the switch two and enable piracy from year one. Fight fire with fire.
You don't have to, switch 2 will be hacked next day by mario and zelda fanboys.
We still don't have software-only exploit for switch 1 , even then only certain serial numbers hackable
Be prepared to grab your pitchforks and torches! We storm against Goliath as dawn!
All jokes aside, would absolutely love it if a bunch of Sintendo "fans" all stormed the courtroom in support of them to give them to hopefully lower their brand reputation. Not just this potential case, but literally every single time they go to court anywhere.