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Is Nintendo's potentially industry-changing new monster battling patent enforceable? We asked some lawyers
Nintendo has been granted a new patent in the US, following its ongoing patent infringement lawsuit with Palworld developer Pocketpair.
Such a patent would not only implicate Palworld with its monster summoning and battling, but many similar games from long-standing rival Digimon, to the forthcoming Honkai: Nexus Anima and DokeV, as well as indies like Temtem and Cassette Beasts. "The filing for such patent protection indicates that Nintendo does intend to pursue a legal strategy in defending itself against entrants in the pocket monster genre," games industry lawyer Richard Hoeg told Eurogamer. "Law and technology are often strange bedfellows, and in my opinion the patent office has appeared out of its depth on evaluating video games for quite some time," said Hoeg.
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