In his order, Squires pointed to two older U.S. patent applications — one filed by Konami in 2002, the other by Nintendo ...

Nintendo’s U.S. patent strategy faces a major setback. The head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has taken the rare step of ordering a reexamination of Nintendo’s controversial patent ...

First, Nintendo's patent in question (No. 12,403,397) was just granted in September. The review was personally ordered by ...

Summer 2026 is already heating up with the recent announcement of a new Avatar: The Last Airbender fighting game. Avatar ...

Nintendo and The Pokemon Company's controversial summoning patent is under scrutiny by the United States Patent and Trademark ...

The Japanese patent office turned down Nintendo's filing after a third party demonstrated that the game mechanic already ...

The director of the U.S. patent office has pointed to examples of ‘prior art’ that might wreck Nintendo’s efforts to own certain mechanics related to summoning monsters ...

Nintendo's controversial creature capturing and battling patent is now being re-reviewed by the US Patent and Trademark ...

Trump-appointed US Patent director John Squires cited previous patents that might make Nintendo's latest patent invalid.

The legal battle between Nintendo and Palworld is still ongoing, operating at the legal system's usual pace of 'glacial'.

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