{"id":40077,"date":"2024-11-19T12:58:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T03:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=40077"},"modified":"2024-11-19T12:59:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T03:59:01","slug":"nintendo-patent-lawsuit-could-be-tipped-in-palworlds-favor-by-a-gta5-mod-from-8-years-ago-japanese-attorney-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/nintendo-patent-lawsuit-could-be-tipped-in-palworlds-favor-by-a-gta5-mod-from-8-years-ago-japanese-attorney-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo patent lawsuit could be tipped in Palworld\u2019s favor by a GTA5 mod from 8 years ago, Japanese attorney suggests\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Earlier this month, Pocketpair publicly revealed some details of the patent infringement lawsuit filed against them by Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company, including the specific patents<\/a> their hit survival game Palworld<\/strong> is being accused of infringing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new information confirmed hypotheses put forward by legal experts,<\/a> as it named three divisional patents (new child patents of a bigger, existing patent) Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company jointly filed for following Palworld\u2019s Early Access release in January this year. Nintendo\u2019s side moved swiftly to reinforce their patents through these divisional applications<\/a> for use in litigation against Pocketpair, taking their first action on February 6, just 18 days after the game launched. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Palworld\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As an analyst described it, it\u2019s likely that Nintendo’s side \u201cactually played Palworld, identified which of its systems correspond to their existing patent families and \u2018pinpointed\u2019 what individual rights to obtain (that are within the scope of the original patent\u2019s specifications).\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, Nintendo has a strong case. But at the same time, Ryo Arashida, representative patent attorney from the Japan-based Patent Attorney Corporation Siarasia<\/a> is quoted by the Nikkei Business Online Edition<\/a> as saying that while the outcome of the lawsuit is unclear, there\u2019s a certain game mod out there that could work in Palworld\u2019s favor.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mod in question is a fan-made one, designed to be a crossover between Pok\u00e9mon and Rockstar Games\u2019s Grand Theft Auto V (GTA5). Arashida does not specify the exact mod, but mentions that it was released publicly around 2016 and includes the mechanic of throwing Poke Ball-like objects at characters on the game field to capture them. Given the description, it is likely that he is referring to this elaborate mod inspired by Niantic\u2019s Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a> from August 2016. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Pokemon<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

According to Arashida, the Pok\u00e9mon capturing sequence used in this mod is similar to the one described in one of the divisional patents (Patent No. 7545191) Nintendo is suing Palworld over. Moreover, the parent patent that this divisional patent belongs to was registered in December 2021<\/a>, meaning the GTA5 mod came out several years earlier. Arashida believes that “there is a possibility that the GTA5 Pok\u00e9mon mod will be recognized as a precedent by the court.” If this were to happen, one of the patents Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company are using in litigation against Pocketpair would be deemed invalid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jetragon<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, as patent rights are only valid in the country where they were granted, this specific lawsuit and its potential effects on Palworld are regionally limited to Japan at present. However, based on patents currently pending approval overseas<\/a>, analysts believe it\u2019s safe to assume that Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company are preparing to bring up a similar case in the US too. This would potentially have a larger impact on Pocketpair, as Palworld\u2019s playerbase in the US is far bigger than in Japan. On the other hand, the Nintendo side may have a harder time making a case in the US due to how much stricter the US system is towards approving software-related inventions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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