• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Hard to know if the patent is expired when they haven’t even officially announced which ones they plan to bring forward in the suit.

          The only info I was aware of so far is that there were multiple claims they were making.

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          3 months ago

          Not disagreeing, just pointing out it’s not a traditional copyright claim like so many others we see.

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        3 months ago

        So nintendo and palworld are based in Japan which has no fair use on copyright.

        If this became a copyright case in Japan and palworld won it could change the law on copyright fair use in, which Nintendo and other corps don’t want as it would open up new games based on their products under fair use.

        The only way Nintendo can attack palworld is via patent infringement.

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          3 months ago

          If this became a copyright case in Japan and palworld won it could change the law on copyright fair use

          not every country has case law. most of Europe is eg using “code law”, which means a precedent doesn’t change the law, but only applies to the one specific case with all its specific context and circumstances taken into account. under slightly different circumstances, a judge may rule differently