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US patent office revokes Nintendo’s patent on summoning characters to make them battle | VGC
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I can’t tell if this legit or more Trump meddling
Nintendo is/was/maybe I got misinformation suing the US over tariffs?
Nah it was an insane patent that got reevaluated after a crap ton of complaints because Nintendo filed it in light of Palworld and their eventual lawsuit.
It really should not have been approved in the first place, and the scope was so wide that it drew a ton of attention from businesses completly unrelated to gaming.
The US tarrif thing is separate, so it probably didn't have any effect here.
Over this piddly shit? Really, you actually can't tell if this wasn't Trump meddling? Nintendo got the patent last September under Trump's acting USPTO director Coke Morgan Stewart. Two months later, the new director John A. Squires ordered it reviewed (bad patents fall through the cracks all the time; IP attorneys have described patent lawsuits as a "minefield" for both parties). Now, in a non-final decision for which Nintendo has two months to respond, it has been revoked. Nintendo didn't even respond to the patent reexamination. I suggest reading the Games Fray article referenced by the linked content mill article poorly regurgitating it.