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Nintendo Is Suing Palworld Creators For Patent Infringement

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Joshua Robertson

Published Sep 19, 2024

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Summary

Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have announced a joint patent infringement lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair.
Nintendo claims that Palworld "infringes multiple patent rights" and is seeking an injunction against patent infringement and compensation for damages.
This lawsuit comes nine months after Nintendo and The Pokemon Company claimed they would be investigating Pocketpair following plagiarism accusations.

Nintendo and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Pokemon Company have revealed that they have filed a joint patent infringement lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpai🔜r, claiming that the game "infringes mult♔iple patent rights." Nintendo announced the joint lawsuit via .

In the post, Nintendo explains that the lawsuit was filed in the Tokyo District Court on September 18 aga🌺inst Pocketpair, and seeks an injunction against infringement as well as compensation for damages. Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are claiming compensation on the grounds that Palworld "🔜infringes multiple patent rights."

In the same post, Nintendo claims that it will "continue to take necessary actions against any infringement of its intellectual property rights," and will protect the I𓆉P that "it has worked hard to establish over the years." That's all the information that the post is willing to give us at this time, and Pocketpair has yet to respond publicly about the situation.

Nintendo Is Actually Filing A Lawsuit Against Palworld

A monster from Palworld firing a move from its hand

Nintendo actually doing something about Palworld has been a source of speculation for quite some time, as comparisons to Pokemon were being made even before release. After it launched in early access earlier this year, the Pokemon community began investigating many of the game's monster designs, claiming that they were extremely similaꦇr to certain Pokemon and cal🍌ling them "incredibly shady and lazy."

So much noise surrounded Palworld that it forced Nintendo itself into making a statement. Nintendo claimed that it had "received many inquiries" regarding potential plagiarism in Palword, and that it had 𓃲begun investigating the game and Pocketpair, promising "appropriate measuresℱ" if Pokemon intellectual property had been infringed. That was back in January, and it was also the last we heard of Pocketpair potentially running into legal trouble.

Of course, legal issues such as this can take a long time, and the fact that a lawsuit has only just been filed - nine months after the game's launch in early access - is evidence of that. We don't know what will happen to Palworld if Nintendo is successful with this lawsuit, but we can almost꧅ guarantee that it'll take just as long - if not longer - to see the outcome.