{"id":799,"date":"2025-04-21T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2025-04-22T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:40:13","slug":"whats-palworld-devs-defence-against-nintendos-lawsuit-pikmin-3-apparently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/whats-palworld-devs-defence-against-nintendos-lawsuit-pikmin-3-apparently\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Palworld Dev&#8217;s Defence Against Nintendo&#8217;s Lawsuit? Pikmin 3, Apparently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Amongst other games, of course.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/palworld\">Palworld<\/a> dev Pocketpair is currently locked in a legal battle with Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company over alleged patent infringement. Now, as detailed by <a href=\"https:\/\/gamesfray.com\/pocketpairs-defenses-against-nintendos-patent-lawsuit-unpacked-ark-craftopia-zelda-ff14-etc-may-render-asserted-patents-invalid\/\">Games Fray<\/a> (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/palworld-dev-fights-nintendo-lawsuit-with-comparisons-to-fallout-monster-hunter-and-more\/\">VGC<\/a>), we have a vague idea of how Pocketpair might be looking to present its defence.<\/p>\n<p>In short, Pocketpair argues that Nintendo&#8217;s patents-in-suit shouldn&#8217;t have been granted in the first place, referencing numerous games that it says utilised key mechanics long before Nintendo claimed to have invented them. The company points to its previous title, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-one\/craftopia\">Craftopia<\/a>, first and foremost, but has also referenced a number of well-known games.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/whats-palworld-devs-defence-against-nintendos-lawsuit-pikmin-3-apparently\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst other games, of course. Palworld dev Pocketpair is currently locked in a legal battle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.autolinksubmit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}