Nintendo’s Palworld lawsuit may be in trouble after Japan rejects Pokemon creature-capture patent

So, I was reading GameRant and Windows Central, and it turns out Nintendo’s patent application – number 2024-031879 – got rejected by the Japan Patent Office back in late October. Apparently, the patent office didn’t think it was original enough – it was too similar to stuff already out there. This is interesting because it’s connected to the same family of patents Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are using in their lawsuit against Palworld, so it could have some impact there.






