reminds me about how some of the “evidence” of plagarism ppl were collecting for palworld was ppl just editing the palworld models to be closer to the pokemon models and people ate that shit up believing the palworld models were just rips or something (I don’t remember if any of them were actually rips but I just remember how many people immediately believed those posts without checking them)
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Apollo, the gift of prophecy, etc
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apollo’s always got his dodgeball ready
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On a patent basis?? Boy, i hope this shit gets knocked the fuck down.
I keep saying this and no one knows what I mean! Thank you!
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Nintendo has, as I mentioned in my tweet, a legendary track record. I think they never lost a lawsuit that they initiated themselves, and under the Japanese legal system, seven years ago, they sued a company called Colopl, which is a mobile gaming powerhouse from Japan. They [Colopl] have, I think, almost 2,000 [employees], nobody but knows them outside Japan but they had a famous mobile game called White Cat Project, not copying Mario, not copying Pokémon, not copying Zelda, nothing at all. Nintendo brought forward six patents that they thought that this company was violating inside their very successful mobile game at one time. It was one of the most popular mobile games in Japan, and they built a huge case. One of the patents was for a confirmation screen after sleep mode. You know when devices are sleeping and you want to resume there’s a confirmation screen in a lot of games? “Are you sure you want to resume?” And then you tap yes or no. Nintendo has a patent on that, and this game uses it. And then Nintendo said, you know, look, you’re using our patent and you cannot do that. You’re not paying us any licensing fees.
And they had five other ones, including one for isometric, pseudo, 3D games, when the character is hidden behind the tree, the game forms a shadow, so you have a kind of sense for where the character is, even though you don’t see the character clearly. Nintendo has a patent on that, and this game uses that technology. And Nintendo said, look, you cannot do this. And this goes on with four other patents, right?
I never heard about that case what the fuck 
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EA Sports is next on the chopping block
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yup that was all so they could push dragalia lost iirc
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a game which they then proceeded to ignore for several years
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what the FUCK
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Yeah they just scoop up patents on any old thing and if you fly a little too close to the sun they’ll get your ass.
normal company