Nintendo's legal fight with Palworld suffers a reversal as the USPTO reject their patent on character-summoning battle mechanics

Nintendo's efforts to patent the idea of summoning a videogame character and letting it fight another character have suffered a significant reversal in the USA, even as the Mario makers continue a copyright infringement lawsuit against Palworld developers Pocketpair in Japan. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has now revoked the character-summoning patent in question, though their decision is "non-final". Nintendo have two months to respond and argue their case. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun

23d ago

1 0

Discussion

Begin the discussion

Begin something meaningful by sharing your ideas.

No comments yet.

Be the first to share your take and keep the conversation moving.

Join the conversation

UPVOTERS

Community appreciation

See who found this content valuable and showed their support.

MaxMumbai

TOPICS

Explore the same topics

Discover more content from the topics this post is mapped to.

polygon.com

How to get more mana in Vampire Crawlers

Mana is used to play your cards in Vampire Crawlers. The more mana you have, the more cards you can play. Here's how to in…

Jordan Fischer

2026-04-24 19:43

eurogamer.net

Famously streaming-averse Nintendo has finally added the Super …

Mario fans, throw up your caps in celebration: in an unprecedented move, Nintendo has uploaded (some of) the original soundtrack for Super Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 o…

Eurogamer

40m ago