Nintendo has a long history of turning wild ideas into hardware, but some of its patents are so outlandish they sound like urban legends. From inflatable saddles to sanity meters and Pokémon that ...

Nintendo’s ongoing legal campaign against Palworld developer Pocketpair has hit another roadblock. A key patent in Nintendo’s “monster capture” family, one that sits right between two patents, ...

Nintendo’s ongoing patent lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair has encountered a significant hurdle, as the Japan Patent Office (JPO) recently rejected one of Nintendo’s patent applications.

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 ...

TL;DR: Nintendo's attempt to trademark monster capture mechanics was rejected by Japan's Patent Office due to lack of originality, citing prior games like Monster Hunter and Pokémon GO. This rare ...

You’ve probably seen the chaos unfolding online. Ever since Palworld exploded onto the scene, the internet has been a battlefield of opinions, with “Pokémon with guns” becoming the rallying cry. And ...

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 ...

The news that the head of the US Patent Office has ordered the agency to re-examine a patent awarded to Nintendo at the start of September is both highly unusual – it's more than a decade since the ...

Earlier Konami and Nintendo filings may be used as prior art against the patent. Nintendo has two months to respond, with third parties able to contest the patent. Japan recently rejected Nintendo’s ...

As spotted by MikeOdysseyYT, Nintendo recently updated a patent that many Nintendo fans think is a Nintendo Switch 2 accessory that would enable a second flip-up screen for the purpose of emulating DS ...