Evidence cited included gameplay footage from ARK and documentation from Craftopia, Monster Hunter 4, Pokémon GO, and Kantai Collection. Nintendo filed the patent in March 2024, shortly before its ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In September, Nintendo was granted a US patent for "the fundamental gameplay mechanic of summoning a character and letting it fight another” within a ...

The director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has ordered a rare patent re-examination, after Nintendo acquired a US patent on a gameplay mechanic used in other games. In ...

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In this case, the rejection undermines Nintendo’s claim that its patents protect truly original gameplay ideas. When Japan’s own patent authority says otherwise, that argument loses credibility fast.