The director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has ordered a rare patent re-examination, after Nintendo acquired a US patent on a gameplay mechanic used in other games. In ...

Evidence cited included gameplay footage from ARK and documentation from Craftopia, Monster Hunter 4, Pokémon GO, and Kantai Collection. Nintendo filed the patent in March 2024, shortly before its ...

Nintendo’s ongoing lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair may be facing new complications after Japan’s patent office rejected one of the company’s core creature-capture system patents for ...

Nintendo has run into another issue during its ongoing legal battle against Pocketpair’s open-world survival game Palworld. As reported by GamesFray, one of the Nintendo patents related to the case ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In September, Nintendo was granted a US patent for "the fundamental gameplay mechanic of summoning a character and letting it fight another” within a ...

It would be hard to blame Nintendo for becoming used to getting its way when it comes to courts. In case after case, the Japanese behemoth crushes its prey, scoring millions in damages. But when it ...

Nintendo has been denied a patent application that would've allowed it to own the mechanic of capturing a character or creature in a game, such as that found in Pokémon games. As reported by Games ...

Nintendo’s ongoing lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair could be facing new challenges after Japan’s patent office rejected one of the company’s key creature-capture system patents for ...

Nintendo recently argued that mods for games can't be used as examples of 'prior art' to invalidate patents like the ones it's using in its lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair, in a take ...

When Xbox debuted in 2001, it was a newcomer to a scene dominated by Japanese-made games and consoles. At that time, Sega, Nintendo and Sony were household names to anyone who’d ever touched a ...