▲ 49 ▼ Palworld: Palfarm TBA on Steam (store.steampowered.com) submitted 1 year ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] josefo@leminal.space 9 points 1 year ago (1 child) Good thing the ape is already concerned, else this would permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago It's not like that would stop Nintendo. Japanese patent law is much less strict on the concept of prior art. IIRC, you can essentially tack new claims onto old patents and the Japanese patent office will treat the result as if the new claims had been patented by you all along. They did that against Pocketpair already. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago It's not like that would stop Nintendo. Japanese patent law is much less strict on the concept of prior art. IIRC, you can essentially tack new claims onto old patents and the Japanese patent office will treat the result as if the new claims had been patented by you all along. They did that against Pocketpair already. permalink fedilink source parent