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This whole thing is silly.
Palword isn't a Pokemon competitor. It's an Ark/Valheim-like on PC; it has nothing to do with the Switch, it's nothing like Pokopia or most Pokemon games. Nintendo doesn't sell PC games!
This would be akin to Skyrim being an Xbox exclusive, and BGS suing Stardew Valley for "dynamic NPCs" on the Switch version.
...Why? It's not a competitor at all; what's the business motivation?
Palworld marketing certainly leaned into the controversy, but honestly Nintendo is stupid for starting this, even from a pure business perspective.
Many of the designs are blatant ripoffs of specific pokemon. Here are a few examples
Nintendo went after patent angle in court because it's easier than proving the ripoffs are a copyright violation. But make no mistake, the ripoffs are the primary reason for the legal action. They really got under Nintendo's skin.
A lot of Pokemon are generic tropes, but some really are blatant ripoffs. I think it's pretty scummy of Palworld, actually.
But.
If Nintendo don't think they can prove a copyright violation, they shouldn't try to get them with some tangential thing, especially those crazy software patents of all things.
I just googled and there are over 1000 pokemon. At some point it's easier to rip off a design than not. They themselves seem to struggle to make new pokemon that don't look like absolute shit.