Overseas media gets excited as 'Pocket Pair vows to fight Nintendo on behalf of indie developers' in Palworld lawsuit
Pocket Pair, developer of the open-world survival crafting game
Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers | Eurogamer.net
https://www.eurogamer.net/palworld-developer-vows-to-fight-nintendo-lawsuit-on-behalf-of-fans-and-indie-developers
Pocketpair says Nintendo hasn't revealed what patents Palworld allegedly violates
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/pocketpair-says-nintendo-hasn-t-revealed-what-patents-palworld-allegedly-violates
Palworld developer has no idea why Nintendo's suing over its Pokémon-like game - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/19/24248957/pocketpair-pokemon-patent-infrigement-lawsuit
On September 19, 2024, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company announced that they had filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocket Pair. Some gamers have said that the character 'Pal' in Pal World resembles a Pokémon from the Pokémon series, but it should be noted that this lawsuit alleges infringement of patent rights, not copyright or trademark rights.
For more information about the background to the lawsuit, see the following article:
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company sue Palworld developer for patent infringement - GIGAZINE
Following the announcement from Nintendo and The Pokémon Company, Pocket Pair's official Palworld X (formerly Twitter) account released the following statement:
Regarding the filing of a lawsuit against our company
— Palworld/Palworld Official (@Palworld_JP) September 19, 2024
Today, Nintendo Co., Ltd. and The Pokémon Company announced that they had filed a lawsuit against us for patent infringement.
The same information is also available on the Pocket Pair official website.
news16 | Pocket Pair Co., Ltd.
https://www.pocketpair.jp/news/news16?lang=ja
Pocket Pair stated, 'At this time, we have not received the complaint, and are unable to confirm the other party's claims or the details of the patent rights that are allegedly infringed.' They added, 'We are extremely disappointed that this lawsuit may force us to devote more of our time to issues other than game development, but we will do our best for the sake of our fans, and to ensure that indie game developers are not hindered or discouraged from expressing their free ideas.'
Pocket Pair did not make any specific mention of how it would respond to the lawsuit, but Eurogamer editor-in-chief Tom Phillips, who picked up on the statement, published a short article on September 19, 2024 with the headline 'Palworld creator vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers,' as if Pocket Pair had expressed its intention to actively contest or defend against the lawsuit.
Meanwhile, game developer site Game Developer reported that 'Pocket Pair said Nintendo hasn't revealed any patents that it claims have been infringed by Pal World,' while IT news site The Verge reported that 'Pal World's developers have no idea why Nintendo would file a lawsuit over a Pokémon-style game.' Other overseas media outlets seem to have generally taken a more subdued tone when reporting the story.
At the time of writing, it is not known what kind of patent infringement Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are concerned about, but Kiyoshi Kurihara, a visiting professor at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology and a patent attorney, pointed out that Palworld's 'part that involves throwing a ball-like object at a monster to capture it' seems to have something in common with Pokémon.
This is probably the patent that Nintendo used in its lawsuit against Pal World (Kiyoshi Kurihara) - Expert - Yahoo!News
According to Kurihara, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company applied for a patent on July 30, 2024, and the patent was evaluated on August 20, so it is believed that the two companies took advantage of a system called ' super accelerated examination .'
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