"It Is Ever More Likely That Nintendo Will Lose" - Firm Faces Another Setback In Battle Against Palworld

Nintendo faces another setback in its legal battle against Pocketpair and Palworld . As reported by Games Fray (thanks, IGN ), the U.S. Patent Office boss John Squires (no, not quite The Stone Roses guitarist - close, though) has ordered the reexamination of Nintendo's “summon sub-character and let it fight” patent.

The patent was previously granted "without any objection" to Nintendo, though Squires points to two previous patents from Konami in 2002 and Nintendo itself in 2019 which may viewed as "prior art" references. Squires says that both are “important in deciding whether the claims are patentable,” while each “raises a substantial new question of patentability".

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It's important to note that the reexamination doesn't necessaril