Nintendo received a "Rejection" from the Japanese Patent Office on "Palworld"-Related Patent—Prior Art Examples Cited:>According to the progress information for patent application 2024-031879 available on the Patent Information Platform, a notice of rejection was issued for Nintendo's patent application approximately two weeks ago. This patent application is part of a patent family derived from several important patents related to "monster capture" and other activities, and is also part of the lawsuit against Pocket Pair.>According to the Patent Office records, citing "ARK: Survival Evolved" as an example, the patent application filed by Nintendo was deemed to be "lacking in inventive step" because it was prior art that had been used in previous games.>Nintendo's options for the future are to file an amended patent application with revised claims, appeal to the more specialized Intellectual Property High Court, or abandon the patent application altogether.>Additionally, media outlet Windows Central stated that "this supports the claim that Pal World is not an imitation of Nintendo, but rather is built on a foundation of long-established technology," and that this will leave Nintendo without one of its avenues of attack, working to Pocket Pair's advantage.>The report also states that while the Patent Office's decision will not directly affect the outcome of the lawsuit over Palworld, it could still have an impacthttps://www.gamespark.jp/article/2025/10/30/158950.html
>>724569295Don’t care Palworld devs still being executed
Dazzi won.
>>724570070how? without the monster collecting pattren all they have is riding monsters patent which Pocketpair already swapped with kites and is still disputing in court
>getting denied from your own countryYou can't make this shit up.
Lycanroc
>>724569295HAHAHAHAHAHA GET FUCKED NINTENJEWS
ERICSPAMMER'S GONNA FREAK!
>>724570253It's basically a miracle, japan has retarded laws.
>Generation Alpha grew up playing AAA games, Roblox, and Minecraft>Nintendo is still worried about patents and pandering to manchildren who will die of old age in the next 50 years instead of attracting young bloods
so huh any game who did everything before nintendo did it to and patented it?
>>724571292SMT maybe? You collect monsters and it came on the SNES
Pocketpair should patent sexual intercourse with pocket monsters. Imagine having your own personal Cattiva onahole in your pocket at all times!
>>724571292SMT, Wizardry, and Dragon Quest all had monster taming before Pokemon existed
>Nintendo's options for the future are to file an amended patent application with revised claims, appeal to the more specialized Intellectual Property High Court, or abandon the patent application altogether.Also>>The report also states that while the Patent Office's decision will not directly affect the outcome of the lawsuit over Palworld, it could still have an impactThis is not the "win" you think it is. Palworld better start spending some money on some patents if they hope to survive by the middle of next year.
>>724569295It's over.Nintendo lost.
>>724570363SHE cute
Palworld wonSonic Crossworlds wonNintendeen wonEric wonMacaco wonNintendo lost.
Palsnoys are getting their shit kicked in inside the Famitsu thread right now.
it’s another brownoids don’t understand patents general episode
>>724570245They don't even have that if they're looking at Ark, that game had in depth monster riding since like 2015
>>724570245I haven't played Palworld in a while, but what do you mean by no Monster Riding? Are you saying I can no longer ride my buffed up Jetdragon at Mach Speed?
>>724571179I don't hate that. There's no shame in wanting nothing to do with Roblox
>>724573261He's wrong. The riding pals are the same, it's the gliding pals like galeclaw that got changed.
I assume a few games publishers had a few words with the Patent Office to tell them how retarded Nintendo is being.
>>724573570I see, I never used them but I did see Glider upgrades added last time I played.
>>724569295they're trying to patent shapes and ideas that existed before them, serves them right
Balworlmd
>>724569295>because it was prior art that had been used in previous games.So basically nintendo cant patent shit since they dont have anything original on them
>>724573592Square Enix at least would.
Software patents are insane. In real life, you have to actually create a new mechanism or invention to get a patent - you could patent some innovative new sealant or whatever that helps build cars that can also go underwater, but you can't patent just "the concept of cars that can go underwater". But then for software, just "code that implements virtual cars going underwater" gets counted as a mechanism in itself. You don't need a new way of writing the code or a new software paradigm, you can just patent writing code that expresses a certain concept entirely.
oooohhhhhh nooooooooooJapan pretty much licks the shit off of nintendos shoes.So losing this patent war, in their home turf of japan, is quite a telling blow.Even they're sick of nintendoi's shit.
>>724574807Seems to work in the US since they allowed a bullshit patent through
I don't get it.Why doesn't Nintendo stop fucking around and just sue for copyright infringement instead of this patent troll bullshit?Everybody and their moms know they'd win.Just take those x screenshots of the models side by side, easy peasy.
What causes someone to defend Palworld? Extreme Nintendo derangement? Or do they initially start as a GameCubesnoy?
>>724574767I don't think the tendies on this board are ready for that conversation yet
NINTENBROS NOT LIKE THIS
>>724575297Have they tried to patent all of this shit?
>>724575162>Why doesn't Nintendo stop fucking around and just sue for copyright infringement insteadbecause none of their copyrights are infringed.
>>724575162Infringement of what?Games with monsters in them? lmaoThey don't call it pokemon or directly rip any designs from pokemon games.They got nothing.
Is Palworld better than Pokemon ZA?
>>724575819If you like OWSC, yes absolutely. If you don't like OWSC, maybe maybe not. it's technically better but the gameplay might not be as appealing. as far as just the combat itself it's funny how laughably bad ZA is in comparison.
Kinda baffling to think that nobody has did a Patentleft of the sorts for Gameplay mechanics by now to avoid genres and options from becoming a monopol
>>724575819yes
>>724570410https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxyL3Ymbwn4
>>724575819Yes and no.Yes in that it's a lot freer and you can fight alongside your pals. It feels a lot more dynamic.No in that you can't directly direct your pals actions, save for the pals you can mount, but then you are controlling the pal directly instead of just directing it and working as a second entity.Up to taste, I guess.
>>724571536>Pocketpair should patent sexual intercourse with monstersnooooo don't do that. I want to bang some digimon too
>>724575819Yes but that's not much of an accomplishment. Even the first Nexomon is better than the recent Pokémon games.
>>724575819Depends on what you're after. If you want a standard Pokemon game in 3D? No.Want ARK with pokemon like creatures? Yes
>>724574469tspbp
>>724569295Is this a win for us gamers?
>>724569295>>724570245The monster riding mechanic patent will probably get torn up under the same grounds as the pokeball / monster catching patent. There are plenty of pre-existing works that Pocketpair can cite that predate Nintendo's patent, plus the standard of Nintendo's patent lacking "inventiveness." Anyone can watch a movie or look at a painting where a character rides on the back of a flying monster and say "that would be neat in a video game," which means that it's not patentable, which I am sure will be proven in court.
>>724569295I certainly didn't expect the Japan Patent Office not to just rubber stamp everything for Nintendo.
>>724575819Easily better yes
>>724579134no, but you see, it's not just riding a monster, it's the CONTEXT-SENSITIVE BUTTON PROMPTS! no game has those. certainly not conker's bad fur day, which had an entire tutorial devoted to those
>>724570253Even Japan is tired of Nintendo bullshit
>>724575158That's because the US patent office is run by unqualified people who don't give a shit. They just rubberstamp every patent that comes their way and leave it to the courts to decide in a potential lawsuit later if it actually holds up.
>>724575819No
>>724575162Capcom had their copyright suit against Data East thrown out for not being infringement despite it being Fighter's History even more of a knock off of Street Fighter II than Palworld is of Pokemon. No one's going to try suing over copyright unless it's literally the same characters being actually stolen.
>>724575162>Everybody and their moms know they'd win.Tendie delusion on display free of charge.
>>724575819Yes
>>724580209Do you genuinely think you know better than nintendo's plethora of lawyers?They don't own "cute looking monsters" they own specific pokemon. They didn't use their pokemon. There is nothing to attack on that front.
>>724575819Pokemon ZA is one of the worst in the series. Arceus was a step towards something genuinely compelling and they've already changed course again for no reason.Palworld is just a survival crafting game with a pokemon skin though, so honestly barely is a comparison - but it's an indie game made with a vision and a decent level of passion and that makes it leagues above Gamefreak's slop.
>>724575819nah, its always fun watching clowns defend shitty games out of spite though.
>>724569295>>724570410>>724571647>"DUDE I'M GONNA BUY AI SLOP TO OWN THE HECKIN' CORPOCHUDS">he doesn't know pocketpair are scammers who don't finish their games>he actually thinks they won't take the money and run now that they made over 10 million dollars from an unfinished gamehumiliation ritual
>>724572474lying is a sin, anon. plenty were telling the resident snoy to kill himself
>>724581259palworld is nearing its 1.0 releasemeanwhile game freak hasn't released a single finished game on switch
>>724581259>still believing the twitteroid ai claimsas expected of a begitabro
>>724575819After what Scarlet and Arceus offer, it's a downgrade
>>724581348>"but muh 1.0 release"anon, anyone can release a polished turd and slap a "1.0" on it>>724581397>designs literally take pokemon and frankenstein the fuck out of them>"dude it's not ai i swear!"crazy how digimon has original designs that don't make the franchise look like a pokemon ripoff, same with yo-kai watch, monster rancher, spectrobes, and literally every other monster raising/battling game out there
>>724581259Modern twitter Dragon Ball fans are so fucking retarded and stupid.
>>724581692>has to use other games instead of Pokemon to make a point
This whole affair has really revealed how deeply corrupt and cronyistic Japan really is. I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo started sending Yazuka thugs to harass Pocket devs. Nintendo probably has its plants in the government trying to do some nasty shit too.Death to Nintendo.
>>724581692It's been nearly two years, and you people still have yet to prove it. Currently ai is trashing youtube, maybe focus on that instead of chasing phantoms
>>724569295OP does not know Japanese. The Japanese patent office did not dismiss Nintendo's application but gave them a list of refusal reasons so Nintendo can resubmit their patent application later.https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20251030-364111/
>>724581894>>724582073>genre about collecting/battling monsters>one game is clearly ripping off another>every other game in the genre is actually original>"Y-YOU CAN'T JUST WIN BY STATING FACTS!">even if ai wasn't a thing, people still would have accused it of blatant plagiarismraped...absolutely raped...
>>724581692>anon, anyone can release a polished turd and slap a "1.0" on itLike game freak
>>724569295Another Palwin for Palworld
>>724582336There's nothing polished about the turds GF pinches out.
>>724569295>>724582362>Palworld wo--ACK!Didn't win the culture war. Didn't even make one billion dollars. What is this, Gamefreak Derangement Syndrome?
>>724581692But enough about Pokemon games for the last decade
>>724582230>one game does pokemon better then pokemon without even trying reallyThis is what you sound like
>>724581771Its because they are all 3rd world shitstains who also are the zealots who defend Nintendo and Sony to their dying breath as if the courp is a family member
>>724572474Everyone knows the Famitsu threads is just a Tendie containment zone since regardless of what actually happens (even when the Switch is down). It's just tendies circle jerking that their handheld beat a console in a market that prefers handhelds. Most likely this "PALSNOYS" is another tendie acting as a sock puppet to continue this weird idea that anyone who criticize Nintendo must be a Sony guy. Also, Palworld was on Steam and XBox before it was on Playstation so not sure why you'd assume a Palworld fan would be a Sony guy anyway. It just shows that Tendies don't know shit about video games if its not on their Fisher Price toy.
>>724575819They're different genres entirely, but Palworld's quality is significantly higher since the devs actually care about the game. Pokemon games have been continually one-upping each other with how bad they can get.
>>724582590Pokémon won the "make shit games" contest
>>724582590>Gamefreak Derangement Syndromehere you go, 10,000 years in paint btw
>>724582619we didnt have those problems on FUCKING N64 open world games. those buildings are straight from MML!
>>724575819any random early access indy game is better than pokemon za.
