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[โ€“] onlinepersona@programming.dev 41 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Nintendo had registered the patents in a filing not long after Palworld's release, setting the stage for the lawsuit.

How is that even legal? Decades after releasing something, a competitor comes along and releases their product, so you decide "now's the time to file a patent" and you can kill the competitor. That should create a very unstable business environment as no new business can be safe when making a patent check as they can be filed after you created a product by somebody else. It makes no sense.

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[โ€“] Shawdow194@fedia.io 11 points 5 months ago

Japans laws regarding copyright and patents are.... hazy

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