Palworld's best defense against part of Nintendo's lawsuit could be an 8-year-old GTA 5 mod, according to one patent expert
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Palworld could find an unlikely ally in an 8-year-old GTA 5 mod while trying to combatNintendo’s lawsuit.
That comes from theNikkei Business Online Edition(as translated byAutomaton), which cites an expert from Japan-based Patent Attorney Corporation Siarasia, who says the mod may offer a decent defense against one of the three patents Nintendo has pulled Palworld developer Pocketpair up on.
Earlier this month,Pocketpair publicly disclosed how much money Nintendo was seekingand which patents it alleges explicitly have been infringed – and it was the very patents some legal experts thought it would be. Nintendo andthe Pokemon Companyreportedly filed three new divisional patents – smaller offshoots of larger and pre-existing patents – following Palworld’s Early Access release to strengthen their legal claim.
Legal experts still predict this one will rumble for a while, and there are other patent infringement claims to defend against, though it looks like there are a few twists and turns to come yet.
On the bright side, theNintendo Palworld lawsuit didn’t stop the survival hit from debuting at the top of Japan’s PS5 chartsover Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero and Metaphor: ReFantazio.
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