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Nintendo Rewrites Patent Mid-Case in Ongoing Lawsuit Against Palworld Dev Pocketpair — but Why?

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Nintendo and The Pokémon Company’s patent infringement lawsuit in Japan against Pocketpair’s open-world survival game Palworld is ongoing. In the latest development, Nintendo has reworded one of the patents in the case, but what led up to this bizarre move?Palworld is an open-world survival game that skyrocketed in popularity upon its Steam and Xbox early access launch back on January 19, 2024. It sold 8 million copies in just six days and racke…

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You know that since his announcement Palworld has generated great controversy due to the perceived similarities in the designs of his creatures called “Pals” with Nintendo’s Pokémon. There is no doubt that the game has been inspired by Pokémon. Sony has already shown its support for Palworld, but Nintendo and Pokémon have done the opposite. They proved it by recently suing their developers. Later, Pocketpair, developer of Palworld, has issued a …

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IGN broke the news in United States on Friday, July 25, 2025.
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