Nintendo’s patent around summoning and making characters battle each other is being re-examined by the US Patent Office.
While we’re still waiting on a proper update in the legal battle between Nintendo and Pocketpair regarding Nintendo suing Pocketpair over Palworld and its alleged infringement on Nintendo patents, we do have an update on some of the patents in question, thanks to Games Fray, who has been reporting in-depth analysis on the case as it develops.
Spotted by Games Fray, the US Patent Office, specifically the director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), John A. Squires, has initiated a re-examination of Nintendo’s patent number 12,403,397. You might not recognize that patent by its number, so to give you a refresh, it’s the one regarding summoning characters and making them battle, and the one that IP and patent lawyer Kirk Sigmon said «should not have happened, full stop.
