Nintendo and the Pokemon Company's lawsuit against fellow creature-collectathon Palworld is for patent infringement, rather than copyright infringement, and one analyst reckons that means Nintendo has "given up" on trying to argue that Pals look too similar to Mons.
Nintendo announced that it was filing a lawsuit against developer Pocketpair earlier this week for infringing "multiple patent rights" in order to "protect the valuable intellectual property that we have built up through many years of hard work." Nintendo had previously said it was looking into potential cases of copyright infringement, right around the time when Palworld became a booming success, so most people speculated that if a legal battle between the two monster-tamers were to start, it would be centered around the creature design's visual similarities. But it seems Nintendo must have come up empty-handed in that regard.
