Chebucto Regional Softball Club

I'm confused on why people are paying so much money for Monopoly.

> Seems like bullshit to me, but I’m not a lawyer. The Japanese patent system is so, so much worse than the US one. Where things like what you just described are possible. Honestly, Palworld is probably hosed over there. Nintendo has the patent on a system Palworld made before the patent even existed and Nintendo is going to beat them over the head with it. In the US, a solid defense to a patent is to show prior art. In this case, Palworld's dev can point to Palworld as the prior art if Nintendo sues them; Nintendo's patent existed after Palworld did. Palworld's dev can also point to a giant mountain of prior art of other games that allow one to throw an object to capture a monster.

Nintendo is attempting to bully other game developers. They can't enforce this patent in the US, but they can wave the patent and a cease and desist letter menacingly at their competitors. Thing is, it's generating bad will against Nintendo and the first time a company calls Nintendo on their shit, Nintendo is gunna lose. The patent is either so specific it won't apply to another game or its broader and there is a mountain of prior art.

And even then, the US patent office often will grant unenforceable patents, that then explode in the patent holder's faces the first time they try to use them. The granted one in this case is about "the process of aiming and capturing characters", which they either had to make so specific as to not apply to anybody else, or general enough that there are piles of prior art out there.