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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 44 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You're not, but there's a preexisting patent, and these three are basically extensions of that patent.

Essentially, Palworld needed to know what supplementary patents Nintendo was going to file in the future in Japan so they didn't run afoul of the patent from the past. You know, textbook legal psychic stuff, really. /s

I hope Nintendo hurts itself in its confusion as its lawyers flail before the Japanese courts.

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Has Phoenix Wright been a documentary about the Japanese legal system this entire time, and we just wrote it off?

"Oh, haven't they told you, palworld? That patent report is O U T D A T E D

[–] authorinthedark@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago

that's what I was told

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tbh, if this is how Japan does patent law, it's a wonder they have as much technological progress as they do.

[–] TanyaJLaird@beehaw.org 14 points 3 days ago

Japan is a country that has been living in the year 2005 since 1985.