Nintendo has updated the wording of one of the patents central to its ongoing lawsuit against creature-collecting survival game Palworld and its developer Pocketpair, in a move IP expert Florian Mueller describes as both "weird" and a reasonable sign that the house of Mario is concerned about this element of its case.
Mueller, a games industry veteran and former Blizzard consultant known for the likes of the FOSS Patents blog, notes (for games fray) that "Litigants don't change a patent in the middle of an infringement case unless they feel the patent is at a fairly high risk of being deemed invalid in its original form."
