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USPTO orders reexamination of Nintendo's "Pokémon summoning" patent Anonymous 11/07/2025 (Fri) 22:16:46 Id: 578300 No. 1915325
https://archive.ph/XacFN In a spectacular backfire, it appears Nintendo's aggressive patent lawfare has attracted the attention of the legal apparatus and raised questions about the legitimacy of a certain patent to begin with. The patent in question is U.S. Patent No. 12,403,397, the infamous "summoning" patent, though that's not quite an accurate description of it. Full patent on the right. IP lawyers say this is "extremely rare" and a shocking move. The Patent and Trademark Office virtually never issues a reexamination order of its own volition. The current consensus seems to be that Nintendo will likely lose it.
Anonymous 11/07/2025 (Fri) 22:29:53 Id: 306c77 No. 1915336
Even if Nintendo does lose, this would only affect developers in the US, right? I don't know much about copyright law.
Anonymous 11/07/2025 (Fri) 22:49:16 Id: d60f2c No. 1915354
I hope Nintendo gets fucked, Palworld is pretty shit but Pokemon is absolutely terrible and this is just kvetching after it's success in a pathetic attempt at trying to kill any competition. Not the first time and won't be the last.
Anonymous 11/07/2025 (Fri) 23:30:48 Id: de3540 No. 1915398
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>US patent Meh, tell me when the JP patents get something, since the lawsuit is in Japan, not in USA. Also, wasn't the only source of that a page called games fray? No other sources appeared after that, and it's very biased
Anonymous 11/08/2025 (Sat) 00:36:46 Id: 204079 No. 1915529
>>1915336 Nintendo could get a patent in another region and suing there, but I'd expect any "real" court (read: not China or the like) would find a patent being rejected by a patent office (especially if that country recognizes US patents in any capacity) for prior art (and what should be shown as an overwhelming mountain of it in common market use) a death sentence for their case even if they did get one there, and even if they somehow won they couldn't stop sales outside of that country. >>1915398 This patent isn't one of the three in the current Japanese lawsuit.
Anonymous 11/08/2025 (Sat) 03:06:56 Id: c71377 No. 1915779
>>1915325 Nintendo's setback in Japan is one step in stopping their strongarm scam. This will further help stopping them from monopolizing a game mechanic they did not even invent.
Anonymous 11/08/2025 (Sat) 17:04:25 Id: 8cd56f No. 1917115
>>1915325 Huh. Did they stop bribing the officials or something?
Anonymous 11/08/2025 (Sat) 17:10:42 Id: 306c77 No. 1917127
>>1917115 Trump is a Sega agent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKj_4ArfcYg
Edited last time by Mark on 11/08/2025 (Sat) 18:59:36.
Anonymous 11/08/2025 (Sat) 17:28:49 Id: 8cd56f No. 1917143
>>1917127 This is why Sonic the Hedgehog is BASED
Anonymous 11/10/2025 (Mon) 04:52:14 Id: 912472 No. 1921294
Tangential, but there's a website listing each time Nintendo did some sort of shady stuff now: https://www.suedbynintendo.com/ It includes content lockdowns and times when legal action was threatened as well.
Anonymous 11/10/2025 (Mon) 05:00:27 Id: 991e49 No. 1921311
>>1921294 My favorite is still the one where they shut down every single Japanese videogame bar/cafe because they were using Nintendo products without a license.
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