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US patent office revokes Nintendo’s patent on summoning characters to make them battle | VGC

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SSUPII@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨gaming@lemmy.zip⁩

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/us-patent-office-revokes-nintendos-patent-on-summoning-characters-to-make-them-battle/

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  • IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fuck yes another win for Palworld!

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Alright Palworld…gonna update your game again?

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    • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They should, the throw summon mechanic made the game more fun.

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      • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Was there really that much difference? I've only played the non-throw version, I think.

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    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      IIRC the more problematic legal challenges are in Japan, whose patent laws are insane.

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  • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This hast to be April’s fools. Something this good can’t be happening.

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  • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can’t tell if this legit or more Trump meddling

    Nintendo is/was/maybe I got misinformation suing the US over tariffs?

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    • mlg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nah it was an insane patent that got reevaluated after a crap ton of complaints because Nintendo filed it in light of Palworld and their eventual lawsuit.

      It really should not have been approved in the first place, and the scope was so wide that it drew a ton of attention from businesses completly unrelated to gaming.

      The US tarrif thing is separate, so it probably didn’t have any effect here.

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t tell if this legit or more Trump meddling

      Over this piddly shit? Really, you actually can’t tell that this wasn’t Trump meddling? Nintendo got the patent last September under Trump’s acting USPTO director Coke Morgan Stewart. Two months later, the new director John A. Squires ordered it reviewed (bad patents fall through the cracks all the time even for major companies; IP attorneys have described patent cases as a “minefield” for both parties). Now, in a non-final decision for which Nintendo has two months to respond, it has been revoked. Nintendo didn’t even respond. I suggest reading the Games Fray article referenced by the linked content mill article poorly regurgitating it.

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  • RiQuY@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fuck Nintendo.

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