USPTO has rejected Nintendo’s summon character and let it fight Pokemon patent

https://mynintendonews.com/2026/04/01/uspto-has-rejected-nintendos-summon-character-and-let-it-fight-pokemon-patent/

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Zahille7@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 142d (2 replies)

Take every news headline with a grain of salt today, folks.

village604@adultswim.fan · 36 pts · 142d (1 reply)

The "article" does note that it's not a final ruling and Nintendo can still make arguments.

Zahille7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 142d

I also read that. It was just a couple sentences of basically nothing.

RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 142d

Good. Hope all of Nintendo's software patents get rejected. Gameplay elements have been ruled to be not protectable. Only things like trade-dressing.

firelight@startrek.website · 1 pts · 142d

The only rule is mob rule.