Nintendo has revised the wording of one of the patents specified in the company's lawsuit against Palworld, a survival game centred on collecting creatures. Florian Mueller, a legal expert on intellectual property, has described the move as a "weird" one, and says that it probably indicates that Nintendo is worried about the outcome of the case (nice spot, GamesRadar+)
Mueller was previously employed as a legal consultant to Blizzard. He gave his thoughts on Nintendo's latest legal move in an article on GamesFray, explaining that Nintendo is employing unorthodox tactics because the case is struggling.
"Litigants don't change a patent in the middle of an infringement case unless they feel the patent is at a fairly high risk of being deemed invalid in its original form," Mueller writes. "That doesn't mean they always lose [...] However, the way Nintendo has worded its new claims here, is — to put it bluntly — weird, and doesn't appear likely to solve Nintendo's problems in this dispute."
The patent changed by Nintendo involves transitioning between two mounts in a video game in a smooth manner. Even for a patent, the wording is very obtuse and unspecific, and Mueller points out that Nintendo's new inclusion of the...
