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Those ingredients suggest widespread blowback may be the driving force. Although Palworld developer Pocketpair is Nintendo's immediate target, it's easy to see the case opening a Pandora's box where ...

A new wrinkle has come up for Nintendo’s patents which could affect the group’s latest efforts to claim ownership of game mechanics in which a player summons another character in battle. Relatively ...

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Nintendo and The Pokemon Company's controversial summoning patent is under scrutiny by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, as its director has ordered a rare re-examination of its validity ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The patent is complicated — and dubious. The patent is complicated — and dubious. As first noted by Games Fray ...

Video game patent lawyer Kirk Sigmon believes that Nintendo got the patents way too quickly. Nintendo getting its hands on these patents might be dangerous for the whole video game industry. Immediate ...

Tesla markets its cars as being among the only ones that can autonomously be "summoned" to your location, making parking a cinch and acting as your personal valet. But how does it actually work, and ...

Last week, the US Patent and Trademark Office made a decision with potentially massive ramifications to the game industry: they granted Nintendo a patent that covers the gameplay mechanic of summoning ...

The request for the patent was filed by Nintendo back in March 2023. It wasn’t until recently that the USPTO finally granted it to the patent applicant. For those who don’t know, the patent will cover ...