It's not like that would stop Nintendo. Japanese patent law is much less strict on the concept of prior art. IIRC, you can essentially tack new claims onto old patents and the Japanese patent office will treat the result as if the new claims had been patented by you all along. They did that against Pocketpair already.
This time they have actually announced that they started the work to get the game finished somewhere next year. And as this is such a cash-cow for them, it would be dumb of them to alienate the customers.
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Echinoderm@aussie.zone · 37 pts · 345d
Nintendo's lawyers are probably preparing a patent application right now claiming they invented the farming sim game.
josefo@leminal.space · 11 pts · 345d
Good thing the ape is already concerned, else this would
Jesus_666@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 345d
It's not like that would stop Nintendo. Japanese patent law is much less strict on the concept of prior art. IIRC, you can essentially tack new claims onto old patents and the Japanese patent office will treat the result as if the new claims had been patented by you all along. They did that against Pocketpair already.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 345d
Nintendo watching a company they’re trying to sue out of existence expand into another category they don’t own:
Benign@fedia.io · 12 pts · 345d
Shouldn't they finish the palword early access before launching new game?
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 345d
Wouldn't be the first time.
myster0n@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 345d
This time they have actually announced that they started the work to get the game finished somewhere next year. And as this is such a cash-cow for them, it would be dumb of them to alienate the customers.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org · 8 pts · 345d
Nintendo right now: 👁️👄👁️