The US Patent Office have rejected a Nintendo Pokemon patent for summoning subcharacters gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/the-…

#Nintendo #Pokemon #Patents

The US Patent Office have rejected a Nintendo Pokemon patent for summoning subcharacters

While it likely won't affect the ongoing Japan lawsuit between Nintendo / Pokemon and Pocketpair / Palworld, it is at least good news for game devs elsewhere.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

@fuchsiii OFC not - and not because they don't want to [tho I'd also nope ransomware groups' demands] but also because #nvidia can't legally do that in many cases, as they too are #licensees of #patents and are bound to #NDA's.

So #GPLv3 and #AGPLv3 are impossible to comply with and even #GPLv2 would be hard to.

Kinda like the shitshow #BusyBox did (gojng GPLv3 and sueing the crap out of license violators), so @landley left that project and started #toybox from the ground up.