Nintendo said the game mod was not counted as “previous art” in his lawsuit against Palworld Dev Pocketpair

Nintendo is famous for the length of the language that will occur, and his legal battle against the Palworld developer, Pocketpair is only the latest main example of the company’s legal team that encourages things as far as they can.

It launched its suit almost exactly a year ago at the time of this writing, and as the battle has ensued, nintendo has changed the patents it claims pocketpair is infringing to try to better align them with its arguments, successful Now, the latest argument is made to answer pocketpair’s attempt to use game mods as part of their defense, is that mods mods don’t count as “previous art. “

This report comes from GamesFray, which has followed the lawsuit for months now. Basically, Pocketpair points to the game mod as a way to try to cut the legs from Nintendo’s claims. Nintendo responded by arguing that the game mod was not the previous art, because the mod for games only worked with the game, and did not run independently from it.

Nintendo will ask the judge to see the mod as patented by other parties, making Nintendo vulnerable to others take ideas from the title Nintendo, patent it, and use it in other games. That is why Nintendo wants the judge to believe that the mod is not counted as “previous art. “

The potential consequences of Nintendo who secure victory with these arguments are very frightening when you consider how far it can be a precedent like that. We might see more legal actions from Nintendo chasing people who just want to make cool mods, who spend hours and their efforts to create original mods to be enjoyed by others. And that is only on a smaller individual scale.

Of course, that if Nintendo succeeded with this argument. We have not heard what the judge said for this case about what had been presented so far, and Gamesfray estimated that we would not hear the big updates for the rest of this year.

However, what is certain is that the results of this lawsuit will have a big impact on the videogame industry, in any way.