Just in case you missed it—in the middle of September this year, the famously litigious, Pokémon rights-owning company Nintendo finally decided to roll its sleeves up and sue Palworld developer Pocketpair for patent infringement.
As explained by IP attorney Kirk Sigmon for PC Gamer last week, this means that Nintendo needs to convince the Japanese legal system that Pocketpair has infringed on a "concept they think is new, novel and non-obvious … generally speaking, it can't be abstract ideas. It cannot be creative works. It cannot be brands. It has to be unique to the patent system."
