I don't know why Nintendo went with this lawsuit, it makes no sense to me, but you can't look at me with a straight face and say that Palword's shiny Lucario isn't a blatant copy of Lucario.

This! They went out of their way to copy Pokemon just for attention. PalSperes and many Pals themselves. They weren't at all just "inspired" by the same thing. It's OK though, gaining attention is the name of the game. They need to now focus on making a good game for what it is (Ark like game) and less on what Pokemon is up to.

As for Nintendo, protecting their ip will always be on the priority list. Palworld got too much attention for Nintendo to ignore. The Pokemon company even made an official statement because of how loud people were about Palworld.

Both Palworlds Anubis and Pokemons Lucario are depictions of egypt god Anubis.

As comparison Anubis of the Moba Smite:

As you can see it shares elements with Palworlds Anubis like the hood that goes around the back of the head and the collar, which Lucario is missing. Obviously Palworld goes with a cartoony art, but the design elements are more like Smites Anubis than Pokemons Lucario. Besides Lucario missing the hood and collar it also has weird spikes on hands and chest and goes with a color scheme which leans strongly into the blue and drops the gold:

Palworlds Anubis barely has any blue (even less than the depiction from 2000 years ago I showed above), but leans strongly into the black and gold color scheme. Also brown, which the Smite Anuubis has, but not the Pokemon Lucario. So yeah, Palworlds Anubis goes somewhere in the middle of original egyptian depictions, the depiction in Smite and Pokemons Lucario.

Can you see why Nintendo didn't sue for copyright? Everyone can make their depiction of Anubis. And as one it isn't particularly close to Lucario as another one.

Yes, I can look at you with a straight face and tell you that no, it is not a copy. Not even close.

US is also revising the patent they granted Nintendo early September

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/us-patent-office-makes-rare-decision-to-order-reexamination-of-previously-awarded-nintendo-patent

As much as I don’t agree with Nintendo/GF’s decision to pursuit legal action against Palworld dev studio, I mean… there is a strong case for Palworld ripping many character design choices from Pokémon (similar to how Pokémon features many character designs which appear ripped straight from Dragon Quest, though to a far less egregious extent).

I should make clear that while this patent is related to (or at least motivated to) Palworld, the patent this thread talk about is not the lawsuit of thr (allegedly) stolen models from Palworld

This patent is about the catching related mechanic, which not only Palworld but other games also possess. While some are indeed Pokemon rip offs (like Temtem), others are not (like Ni No Kuni)

Humm this thread is broken it seems

fixed it