Nintendo has run into another issue during its ongoing legal battle against Pocketpair’s open-world survival game Palworld. As reported by GamesFray, one of the Nintendo patents related to the case ...

The US Patent Office has just revoked a summoning patent used by Pokémon, but it might not be the game changer everyone thinks it is. First off, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company did not and could not ...

The Japan Patent Office has rejected Nintendo's latest patent application for a monster-catching mechanic, deeming it not ...

Nintendo has been denied a patent application that would've allowed it to own the mechanic of capturing a character or creature in a game, such as that found in Pokémon games. As reported by Games ...

Nintendo's ongoing patent lawsuit case against Palworld developers Pocketpair has hit a surprising speedbump, though the battle is far from over. For those unaware, Nintendo is suing Pocketpair for ...

In September of last year, and in light of a corresponding Japanese patent infringement suit, I published an article detailing how The Pokémon Company had filed two patent applications at the United ...

TL;DR: Nintendo's attempt to trademark monster capture mechanics was rejected by Japan's Patent Office due to lack of originality, citing prior games like Monster Hunter and Pokémon GO. This rare ...

The Japan Patent Office just handed Nintendo a major setback in its legal crusade against Palworld. Regulators rejected several patent claims on touchscreen devices. Nintendo and Pocketpair are ...

Malcolm loves games. Be they trading card games like Magic: the Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh, or tabletop wargames like Heroscape and Warhammer 40K, Malcolm's got a firm passion for all things interactive.

The Pokémon Company and Nintendo are suing Palworld developer Pocketpair in a Tokyo court over patent infringement, the companies announced jointly on Wednesday. Pocketpair responded to the lawsuit in ...

IP lawyers have criticised the U.S. patent system after Nintendo was awarded a Pokémon patent that revolves around summoning a character and letting it fight. While the patent pretty much sums up how ...