A Japanese IP attorney has narrowed down the potential patent candidates that could be at the center of Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair. His analysis also surfaced one particular patent family that he believes is particularly likely to be related to Nintendo's allegations against Palworld.
The Pokemon Company and Nintendo filed a joint lawsuit against Pocketpair on September 18, claiming that its hit survival crafting game is infringing on multiple patents. The companies did not elaborate on their allegations publicly after bringing their case in front of the Tokyo District Court.
Nintendo has a patent filed for an apparent dual-screen console that can be split in half and become two separate handheld devices.
Pocketpair subsequently said it was not informed of any patents that Palworld is allegedly infringing. But the list of likely candidates isn't particularly long, according to Japan-based patent attorney Kiyoshi Kurihara. In a recent interview with Yahoo News (as translated by Automation), Kurihara opined that, given how the lawsuit was jointly filed by Nintendo and The Pokemon Company, the patents at the center of the case are plausibly owned by both parties. Based on this reasoning, the attorney narrowed down the list of possibilities to...
