Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent

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• very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shouldn’t it be trivially easy to demonstrate “prior art” in this case, making the patent invalid? I guess that requires someone to get into a legal battle with Nintendo… but it’s not like this is some niche mechanic. Surely there are other entertainment megacorps who are currently in violation of this “patent” and do have the resources to fight it in court.

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  • moody@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Patent laws in Japan don’t work the same way as they do in most of the world. And they can only enforce their patent on companies operating in Japan.

    The whole Palworld situation was based on patents that Nintendo only applied for after Palworld was already released.

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    • beetus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This patent was granted in the US.

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  • MrGabr@ttrpg.network ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In the US, yes. In Japan, it would appear such a concept does not exist.

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    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They were granted the patent in the US in this case.

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  • Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My first instinct is Activision. They got Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Skylanders, and to a lesser extent Sekiro

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    • very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, Activision was my first thought as well.

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  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’ll ask Nintendo for use and they’ll pay for it

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They can’t copyright the legal system. 🤦‍♂️

  Court summons and legal battles.

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shouldn’t take them long to patent the concept of “game”.

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  • Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re going for the jugular. They gonna patent electricity

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• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck Nintendo, and fuck US copyright

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  • MyDarkestTimeline01@lemmynsfw.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Like the other guy said it’s a patient. I don’t know why these days it seems like the patent office is allowing patents for vague concepts, But it needs to stop. The entirety of the video game industry is built on itineration of ideas and concepts that came before. How much longer before they try to patent jumping?

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    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought you had to prove it was unique concept before patenting something, anyway. These have obvious examples from other places

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Give them enough rope, and they’ll try to patent opening a menu or pausing the game…

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    copyright

    This isn’t a copyright, but rather a patent.

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    • veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Same shit, different spicing.

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• forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I find it doubtful they’ll successfully enforce this in court. But you never know.

  The fact that this patent was issued is further proof our “intellectual property” laws and such are fucking broken to all hell, in any case.

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• Noite_Etion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What are we patenting this week Nintendo.

  • Characters throwing ball shaped objects.

  • Characters named after trees.

  • Monsters who only say their own names.

  • Opposite colours, gems, letters or whatever other bullshit we use to name the latest rehashed cashgrab uhh i mean, game…

  • Cute animals.

  This list will go on.

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  God there’s so many companies that operate in Japan that will have problems with the summoning one alone. Square soft leaps to mind

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t know what went wrong that such a patent was granted. I absolutely loathe IP people.

  Someone got paid, guaranteed.

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  • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨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?

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨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

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  • MyDarkestTimeline01@lemmynsfw.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It certainly seems that the patent office had discovered how lucrative kick backs can be.

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• Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This feels like it would hit games like: Overlord

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• MyDarkestTimeline01@lemmynsfw.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can thank good ole Walt Disney and his lawyers for first pissing all over the public domain laws and then throwing as much of his weight as he could behind in reading the penalties for copyright infringements.

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• Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Final Fantasy VIII, why are you crying?

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Someone’s about to get chocobo-kicked:

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  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    FF3 on the NES had summoning too

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    • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Onion Knights, assemble!

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• L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Macintosh Chess breaks this patent.

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