#patent

Japan Patent Office kept Nintendo and The Pokemon Company application No. 2026-019762 rejected, with a 2013 Pokemon Generations video still used against inventive step.

A U.S. patent examiner has issued a non-final rejection of all 26 claims in Nintendo's battle-mode patent after a Director-ordered reexamination, reopening scrutiny of a patent tied to the wider debate around companion-battle mechanics.

Sony has filed a patent for a 'Soft Pause' feature that keeps a game running while reducing gameplay intensity, offering a middle ground between fully playing and fully pausing.

A top r/pcgaming thread from 2026-02-18 cites a PC Gamer report that Valve won its lawsuit against Rothschild-linked entities, with a jury agreeing they violated an anti-patent troll protection act.