Earlier this week, with the help of a fantastic data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://gamesfray.com/last-week-nintendo-and-the-pokemon-company-received-a-u-s-patent-on-summoning-a-character-and-letting-it-fight-another/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://gamesfray.com/last-week-nintendo-and-the-pokemon-company-received-a-u-s-patent-on-summoning-a-character-and-letting-it-fight-another/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>report from GamesFray, we covered the news of Nintendo securing a new U.S. patent that not only looks like part of their arsenal against Pocketpair’s data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/palworld” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/palworld”>Palworld, but could also send shockwaves across the wider gaming industry.
I’m of course talking about the patent for data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/palworld-isnt-the-only-target-nintendos-latest-patent-could-touch-hundreds-of-games” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/palworld-isnt-the-only-target-nintendos-latest-patent-could-touch-hundreds-of-games”>summoning other characters to fight for you in a game, otherwise known as data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://gamesfray.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/US12403397B2-2025-09-02.pdf” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://gamesfray.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/US12403397B2-2025-09-02.pdf” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Patent No. 12,403,397. I’ve been following the back-and-forth between data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/nintendo-is-taking-desperate-measures-in-patent-infringement-case-against-palworld-and-its-looking-a-little-weird” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/nintendo-is-taking-desperate-measures-in-patent-infringement-case-against-palworld-and-its-looking-a-little-weird”>Nintendo and Pocketpair since the original…
