Nintendo v Palworld Case Updates Explained
619Patent lawsuits have always been this very strange part of the Japanese game industry in that it's a war fought mostly by the big game companies as they are the only ones with the ability to do so.
For the longest of times they have left smaller companies out of the line of fire but it seems that starting with the Nintendo Lawsuit we're seeing more cases of big companies going after medium to small firms in what may be a slippery slope towards smaller devs getting pushed into a corner by the sheer number of patents and the size of the legal departments in large firms.
Today we're looking at an interesting case in the industry where the contents of the lawsuit are actually out day 1 unlike the previous cases that have made the news as it gives us a better insight as to how patent lawsuits actually go.
Info shown comes from the following sources:
https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/
https://www.pocketpair.jp/news/20241108?lang=ja
https://tokkyo-lab.com/co/info-lawsuitnintendo
https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/sega-boi-20241021-315258/
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-05-17/konami-sues-cygames-over-uma-musume-pretty-derby-game/.198157
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/cafc/20-2125/20-2125-2021-05-10.html
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/index.html
https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/data/html/result/2023/full/1.html
https://www.koeitecmo.co.jp/e/ir/docs/ir3_20240430_e.pdf
https://www.cyberagent.co.jp/en/ir/library/results/
https://img.konami.com/ir/en/ir-data/statements/2024/en0509_z6adh3.pdf
https://boi.jp/ir/financial/performance/
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Timestamp
00:00 Opening
01:01 What patents were revealed in the update
03:24 What this means for the case
06:56 Why the small amount Nintendo sued for
08:28 What the lawsuits could lead to
13:03 Opinions of the case in Japan
18:46 Wrap Up