{"id":602,"date":"2025-09-10T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:31:42","slug":"nintendos-patent-on-sub-characters-could-have-some-dire-ramifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/nintendos-patent-on-sub-characters-could-have-some-dire-ramifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#039;s Patent On &#039;Sub Characters&#039; Could Have Some Dire Ramifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yet it was granted without concern.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo, in its ongoing battle against Pocketpair and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/palworld\">Palworld<\/a>, has been filing various patents left, right, and centre in the US, the latest of which is almost certainly cause for concern.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed by <a 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\/\">Games Fray<\/a>, Patent <a class=\"external\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" data-custom-tracking-id=\"5652783286200639599\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-url=\"https:\/\/gamesfray.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/US12403397B2-2025-09-02.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/gamesfray.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/US12403397B2-2025-09-02.pdf\">No. 12,403,39<\/a> has been granted which essentially covers the summoning of a sub character and letting it fight on your behalf. Now, we&#8217;re not sure about you, but we can already think of quite a few games that make use of such mechanics outside of Pok\u00e9mon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/elden-ring-tarnished-edition\">Elden Ring<\/a>, for example?<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/09\/nintendos-patent-on-sub-characters-could-have-some-dire-ramifications\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet it was granted without concern. Nintendo, in its ongoing battle against Pocketpair and Palworld, has been filing various patents left, right, and centre in the US, the latest of which is almost certainly cause for concern. As detailed by Games Fray, Patent No. 12,403,39 has been granted which essentially covers the summoning of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}