Nintendo could lose a number of patents if it loses in court against Pocketpair over Palworld

It recently became known that Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair studio, the creators of Palworld, for violating a number of the company's patents. PC Gamer conducted an interview with patent law specialist Kirk Sigmon, who shared his point of view on this situation.

According to Sigmon, it is far from certain that Nintendo will prevail in court: the company is taking a big risk by filing sue Pocketpair. If Pocketpair's lawyers can prove that Nintendo's patents are too abstract in describing patented gameplay mechanics that were infringed, then the court could invalidate Nintendo's patents.

Sigmon gave an example of a patent involving "controlling a player's character in virtual space using input" commands." In his opinion, this is too general wording for a patent; almost any game can be accused of violating it.

Sigmon believes that in order to defeat Nintendo, Pocketpair lawyers must prove that similar game design elements were used and existed before and in other games, even before the Nintendo patent.