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Written by cancel on 2024-09-19 at 01:57

Nintendo: a bunch of big shitty whiny babies, filing suit for violations of video game design software patents.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2024/240919.html

(because they don't like this game that lampoon's Pokémon, even though it targets only an adult audience, on PC only, and doesn't actually infringe any IP, but Nintendo wishes it did, so I guess this is all they have)

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Written by rostiger on 2024-09-19 at 06:39

@cancel Just looked at a single image of the game and thought, "Oh, this is Pokemon, but they added guns".

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Written by cancel on 2024-09-19 at 06:39

@rostiger wait until you see the pokemon slave labor and exploitative imperialism

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Written by rostiger on 2024-09-19 at 11:15

@cancel Yeah, sure, but come

on, with those characters you’re basically asking for a lawsuit.

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Written by cancel on 2024-09-19 at 18:37

@rostiger how so?

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Written by Csepp 🌢 on 2024-09-19 at 19:44

@rostiger @cancel Characters are not patentable tho. (And software patents are very questionable, but that's another topic altogether.)

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Written by rostiger on 2024-09-20 at 11:00

@csepp @cancel As far as I'm aware, copyrights dilute if you fail to defend them? It was explained to me that legal departments of large IP holders sift through potentially copyright infringing material and advise to sue sooner rather than later, which is more often followed up on than not.

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Written by rostiger on 2024-09-20 at 11:01

@csepp @cancel I'm not saying that I agree with the state of affairs, but as a creator, I would steer miles clear of spending a lot of time, energy or money on something that is so similar in appearance and production value.

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Written by Alex Schroeder on 2024-09-20 at 11:17

@rostiger I think that particular aspect is part of trademark laws, which lumped in with copyright and patents under intellectual property. So it would apply to similar names, logos and the like, if they are registered trademarks.

@csepp @cancel

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Written by cancel on 2024-09-20 at 14:19

@alex @rostiger @csepp no. This is ONLY true of trademarks. Not copyright or patents. You can selectively defend your copyright (or not defend it) and still retain it. Nintendo is just being a shitty baby.

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Written by zwei kreise on 2024-09-20 at 21:55

@cancel the whole thing is ridiculous, i assume what happened is nintendo scrutinized every pixel of the thing and found out they couldn't get them on the character designs so they patented (after palworld came out no less) some tangentially related gameplay mechanics because it's all they had lmao. you can just hear them seething from halfway across the globe it's just so monumentally dumb

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Written by zwei kreise on 2024-09-20 at 21:58

@cancel nobody is saying "patent trolling" because it's nintendo, but this is somehow even worse because they didn't even patent any of those things beforehand

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Written by cancel on 2024-09-21 at 00:48

@zweikreise Technically it’s not patent trolling because they are actually participating in the market instead of just grifting with patents

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Written by zwei kreise on 2024-09-30 at 23:49

@cancel true, we need a new name for this though. patent weaponizing?

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