Agent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoHere are the patents Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are suing Palworld overwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkHere are the patents Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are suing Palworld overwww.theverge.comAgent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squarebrlemworld@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoThe patents were filed after Palworld was released
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoThe one thing about patent law I know is that you can’t patent something that already exists in the wild (“prior art”), so surely that can’t be the case, and if it is then it’s open-and-shut, right?
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The patents were filed after Palworld was released
The one thing about patent law I know is that you can’t patent something that already exists in the wild (“prior art”), so surely that can’t be the case, and if it is then it’s open-and-shut, right?