It certainly seems that the patent office had discovered how lucrative kick backs can be.
Comment on Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I don’t know what went wrong that such a patent was granted. I absolutely loathe IP people.
Someone got paid, guaranteed.
MyDarkestTimeline01@lemmynsfw.com 22 hours ago
General_Effort@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
This patent could have a chilling effect, but there’s no way it would stand up in court. They can still use it as a bargaining chip. Court cases are expensive. And if you don’t have a legal department, they are also a personal drain. But that’s small fry. Financially, I don’t believe it makes sense for them to resort to criminality to get such a patent. Maybe they hope it will influence their court case in Japan against Palworld?
kautau@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Sort of the point though. If they take a small creator to court, they can just bankrupt them through expensive legal proceedings, and because they do have the patents the judge is unlikely to throw the case out
General_Effort@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Yes, absolutely. And there is money in patent trolling. I just don’t see the business case here. Why damage the Nintendo brand with such shenanigans when you could leave the patent trolling to some formally independent company. Maybe I just underestimate how much money can be made by shaking down small devs.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 13 hours ago
What damage? Its been known for years what a scummy company Nintendo is and people still buy their games and consoles in the millions. The fans will just say that Nintendo is in the right and move on