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.

Fuck Nintendo, and fuck US copyright

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.

Shouldn't take them long to patent the concept of "game".

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

Someone got paid, guaranteed.

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.

This battle system was in use by final fantasy before pokémon though, wasn't it? Also summoning was used in at least the 4 ff games that I have actually played.

They can't copyright the legal system. 🤦‍♂️

Court summons and legal battles.

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 increasing the penalties for copyright infringements.

I think palworld needs to start filling for ridiculous patents, go on the offensive.

Someone's about to get chocobo-kicked:

Final Fantasy VIII, why are you crying?

Macintosh Chess breaks this patent.

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

This feels like it would hit games like: Overlord