A huge blow for Nintendo! The US Patent Office dismissed the patent Nintendo was likely going to use against Palworld. All 26 claims were ruled "obvious" based on mechanics that have existed since the PS2 era. Is the Palworld legal threat officially cooling off?
… It looked different, sure, but I wasn’t exactly calling up the patent office to claim I’d invented a new mobile phone also I'm pretty sure I stole the idea from Smash Hits magazine . In this case, the USPTO examiner hasn't even looked at a single video game to prove Nintendo was overreaching. …