Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character

Original source:

https://gamesfray.com/last-week-nintendo-and-the-pokemon-company-received-a-u-s-patent-on-summoning-a-character-and-letting-it-fight-another/

I hate to be nitpicky, but try to link the original, and post where you found it (GameRant) in the description instead.

Wtf is with all these patents being granted literally decades after the original concept was implement and if patented then (despite the generic unpatttenable concept) would have already excited by now?

Insane. I summoned shit in video games 40y ago. Fuck you.

What's interesting is they file this in the US.

Is there a reason they don't file patents in Japan instead?

Copyright and patent laws need to die.

I wouldn't say it needs to die but it does need changing quite a bit

Nintendo suing Cloud for summoning Bahamut next

Pretty sure there's prior art on that now.

The article seems to touch on this saying patent offices struggle to find prior art since they look at previous patent documentation, not previous games.

Nintendo has no fucking shame.

The real problem is people supporting them..
- I haven’t given Nintendo a dollar in 30 years now. Not since my last N64 game purchase.
- Yeah but at the same time those people are already tech braindead. Maybe the people that has to go against them it's not the tech brain dead but the people that care about tech ethics. For example, game developers not accepting porting to Nintendo platforms.
  I really don't get why indie devs sign contracts with Nintendo, when Nintendo literally holds tons of blood in his hands from destroyed indie games by demands.
They haven't gotten a cent of my money since probably the 3DS, but then again I bought my LL used.

All good, I’m currently lodging a patent on lodging patents for a system for summoning a character.

See you in court, Nintendo!

P.S.: I’m also lodging a patent for a system of pirating every single game on a Nintendo platform (past, present and future), however I will be opening that one up to the public once granted.

That's nothing. My parent covers thinking of already long established ideas, then claiming them as your own. If you do that, I've got you.

Apple are doomed.

This happens a lot. Its where yoga came from.

No way that holds up when challenged. Gacha games alone prove existing work.

I believe existing work doesn‘t matter much in Japanese patent law for some reason. You either have patented it or you haven‘t. That‘s what we‘ve been seeing with this lawsuit again and again. Honestly, Pocketpal should consider moving to Singapore or something to avoid this bullshit.
- This is US law
  On September 2, the Japanese gaming giant was issued a U.S. patent that covers a somewhat broad implementation of a system for summoning characters into battle. Identified by patent number 12,403,397
  Absolutely ridiculous this was even granted. What is the point in the system if people are just going to be allowed to patent general ideas and vague concepts. How about I got patent my idea of a gun game. See you in court every game with guns.
- I think this patent was given in the US

I'm pretty sure SMT has prior art.

Yeah but how many devs and studios can take Nintendo to court to prove that and win?
Most cannot afford to play in our legal system, so Nintendo wins here.

Welp there goes Coromon, Palworld, and a WHOLE lot of indies. Plus wasnt digimon the first not Nintendo?

I think shen megami tensi didn’t before them. Dragon quest might have, but I’m not sure about that one.
- Digital Debil Story Megami Tensei 1989 beats Pokemon, so Atlus should 100% sue Nintendo to give them a taste of their own medicine.
- Can confirm, DQ5 (1992) had monster catching. Not sure if I'd call it summoning, but Pokemon took clear inspiration from that game in particular.

Does anyone have a patent on making animals fight each other?

How is Pokémon still a thing anyway? Imaginary dogfighting is still fucked up.

BRB going to patents office.
- Thank you to the one person who understood my comment.
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Imaginary murder is also fucked up, but shooter games are still pretty fun. Should we ban all non-educational books and media that portay violence? Cartoon violence nonetheless... Though I will say fuck Nintendo.
- You’re not wrong.
  But something just feels more wrong about Dog Fighting Simulator 2025 to me.
Classic Lemmy moment. There's no need to take fiction seriously as if carries onto real life. Let people enjoy things.
- Yeah I wasn’t being serious but based on the downvotes I don’t think Lemmy got that.
  My intent was actually to fuck over Nintendo with a patent about making your pets fight each other the way they keep gobbling up patents for shit that already exists.