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Those ingredients suggest widespread blowback may be the driving force. Although Palworld developer Pocketpair is Nintendo's immediate target, it's easy to see the case opening a Pandora's box where ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Nintendo's litigation against Palworld developer Pocketpair is becoming increasingly complicated by the day, with one recent patent granted to the ...

A new wrinkle has come up for Nintendo’s patents which could affect the group’s latest efforts to claim ownership of game mechanics in which a player summons another character in battle. Relatively ...

The director of the U.S. patent office has pointed to examples of ‘prior art’ that might wreck Nintendo’s efforts to own certain mechanics related to summoning monsters Pokémon Those familiar with ...

The patent is complicated — and dubious. The patent is complicated — and dubious. As first noted by Games Fray last week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company were granted a US patent earlier this month ...

Tesla markets its cars as being among the only ones that can autonomously be "summoned" to your location, making parking a cinch and acting as your personal valet. But how does it actually work, and ...

The USPTO granted patent 12,403,397 to Nintendo on September 2, 2025. The patent covers scenarios where a summoned character fights, follows, or engages in auto-battles. Critics warn that the patent ...

Nintendo’s latest U.S. patent — one that broadly covers the act of summoning a character to fight another in a video game — feels less like a technical innovation and more like a calculated legal play ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. Nintendo may be the happy, shiny face of gaming, but it ...

Nintendo has caught the attention of the gaming world in a different way than usual this week, with a patent that could cause issues for other developers. The patent, designated U.S. Patent No. 12,403 ...