Pocketpair’s defenses against Nintendo’s patent lawsuit unpacked: ARK, Craftopia, Zelda, FF14 etc. may render asserted patents invalid – games fray
Pocketpair’s defenses against Nintendo’s patent lawsuit unpacked: ARK, Craftopia, Zelda, FF14 etc. may render asserted patents invalid – games fray
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Pocketpair’s defenses against Nintendo’s patent lawsuit unpacked: ARK, Craftopia, Zelda, FF14 etc. may render asserted patents invalid – games fray
Would be great if the patents were invalided, but the bigger issue would be them being accepted in the first place. That shouldn't even work.
If this does go to court because the patents are considered valid and they can successfully argue that they don't apply, I'm afraid Nintendo could just hand-craft another patent. They would have been given instructions the recipe during the court proceedings.
But I do wonder if PocketPair could just default on the lawsuit in the US. What kind of effect would that have?
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NAL, but as it was explained to me by a lawyer: Part of a patent remaining valid is demonstrating that they put consistent effort into enforcing it. Nintendo not having filed suit against the other companies (if the games are indeed found to be violating the same patent) lays groundwork for invalidation. This is for example the reason Pepsico sued farmers in India for cultivating their patented potato - not because it would harm their business, but because it would harm the validity of their patent if they didn't.
How is that relevant when this patents are new, just backdated, and clearly filed primarily for this lawsuit?
They have a patent on a damn potato?