Nintendo has announced that it is suing Palworld developer Pocketpair for "patent infringement", seeking an injunction against said infringement alongside "compensation for damages".
In a notice for the lawsuit on its official website, Nintendo says that Palworld "infringes multiple patent rights" it holds, although the Japanese gaming giant naturally doesn't go into any more detail regarding what those patents might be.
The notice is characteristically brief; Nintendo concludes by simply saying that it "will continue to take necessary actions against any infringement of its intellectual property rights, including the Nintendo brand itself". That sounds like Nintendo, alright.
Responding to the lawsuit on X (formerly Twitter), Pocketpair says it is currently "unaware of the specific patents" it's being accused of infringing, and Nintendo has not "notified" the studio of these details.
Pocketpair goes on to say that it is "truly unfortunate" for the studio to have to "allocate significant time to matters unrelated to game development" as a result of the lawsuit, but that the developer is determined to make sure fellow studios "are not hindered or discouraged from pursuing their creative ideas".
This may well be the culmination of a promise issued by The Pokemon Company back in January, whereupon...
