Following Nintendo and The Pokémon Firm submitting a „patent infridgement lawsuit“ in opposition to the Palworld developer Pocketpair, the indie developer has now issued its personal formal response.
Right here it’s in full:
Yesterday, a lawsuit was filed in opposition to our firm for patent infringement.
We’ve obtained discover of this lawsuit and can start the suitable authorized proceedings and investigations into the claims of patent infringement.
At this second, we’re unaware of the precise patents we’re accused of infringing upon, and we’ve got not been notified of such particulars.
Pocketpair is a small indie recreation firm based mostly in Tokyo. Our aim as an organization has at all times been to create enjoyable video games. We are going to proceed to pursue this aim as a result of we all know that our video games convey pleasure to hundreds of thousands of avid gamers all over the world. Palworld was a shock success this yr, each for avid gamers and for us. We have been blown away by the wonderful response to the sport and have been working laborious to make it even higher for our followers. We are going to proceed bettering Palworld and try to create a recreation that our followers might be happy with.
It’s really unlucky that we are going to be compelled to allocate important time to issues unrelated to recreation growth on account of this lawsuit. Nonetheless, we are going to do our utmost for our followers, and to make sure that indie recreation builders should not hindered or discouraged from pursuing their inventive concepts.
We apologize to our followers and supporters for any fear or discomfort that this information has brought about.
As at all times, thanks in your continued help of Palworld and Pocketpair.