Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have finally announced the success of the Stitch Monster game "Palu", which became a hit at the beginning of this year, and it has become a big news in today's gaming industry. The public is paying attention to whether the Nintendo Legal Department, which is almost invincible and known as "the strongest legal department in the Eastern Hemisphere", can win the case again this time. (Preliminary summary: The story behind the global sales of "Phoenix Palu": ​​the re-entrepreneurship of Coincheck, the former largest exchange in Japan) (Background supplement: AI-generated game suspected of plagiarizing Pokémon! "Phoenix Palu" is now available on Steam Sales of 2 million units, is Nintendo going to sue?) Japanese gaming giant Nintendo officially announced that it has joined forces with The Pokémon Company to sue the developer of "Palworld" in the Tokyo District Court on September 18. Pocketpair files patent infringement lawsuit. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are seeking an infringement injunction and compensation for losses on the grounds that the game "Phantom Paloo" developed and published by the defendant Pocketpair infringes multiple patent rights. Nintendo emphasized that it will continue to take necessary actions against any infringement of its intellectual property rights, including the Nintendo brand itself, in order to protect the intellectual property rights it has worked hard to establish over the years. Source: Nintendo’s official website Pokémon Pallu has been questioned for plagiarism. Pokémon Pokémon Pallu is an action-adventure survival game that combines “Pokémon”-style capture gameplay with elements of survival and construction. Players interact with elves in this world. "Palu" interact with each other, and enjoy a variety of game fun such as fighting, building, and cultivating by squeezing and enslaving these cute creatures. This phenomenal game quickly became popular in the gaming world after it was launched into early access at the beginning of the year. How players enslaved Parlu also became a major meme at the time. In February this year, it was officially announced that sales exceeded 25 million. However, while the game is rapidly becoming popular, the fantasy beast Palu has also been controversial. The most questioned is that part of the character design of Palu is suspected to be generated by AI and is suspected of "plagiarizing" Pokémon characters. The game mechanism can be seen The shadows of many classic games such as "The Legend of Zelda", "Ark: Survival Evolved" and "Minecraft" have been criticized by some players as "stitch monsters". It is worth mentioning that Takuro Mizobe, the president of Pocketpair, once founded the cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck in Japan and is a Bitcoin OG. He spent 1 billion yen in his own pocket to develop and issue Phantom Beast Parlu. It can be said that a large part of the game’s funding comes from cryptocurrency. Extended reading: AI makes 2.1 billion by copying Pokémon! The CEO of the developer of "Phantom Pallu" is actually BTC OG, who founded the Japanese exchange Coincheck. Source: Reddit @Vinny_Dos The strongest legal department in the Eastern Hemisphere took action. The Pokémon Company once publicly stated that it would Appropriate measures are taken to protect the intellectual property rights of Pokémon, although Pocketpair continues to insist that it has not directly plagiarized, and clarified in an interview in mid-year that Nintendo and the Pokémon Company had not contacted them about "plagiarism" and had not taken any measures. any legal action. However, in July, Pocketpair established a joint venture company Palworld Entertainment with Japan's Sony Music Entertainment and Aniplex to promote the global multi-faceted development of Phantom Beast Pallu. This week, Korean media broke the news that KRAFTON is developing the Phantom Beast Pallu mobile game, which is expected to further expand the IP At the time of their influence, Nintendo and Pokémon chose to snipe at this time, and many netizens joked that "if you have fattened, you can cut it off" and "Nintendo has always waited for you to fatten up and collect evidence before taking action." Many netizens also said I’m also curious as to what patent infringement Nintendo will use to prove it, whether it will be the appearance or the gameplay. Players’ opinions are currently quite divided. Many people are also optimistic that Nintendo's legal department, known as "the strongest legal department in the Eastern Hemisphere," will win the lawsuit again. It is worth noting that the Pokémon Company won a copyright infringement judgment in Shenzhen, China this month regarding the copycat version of the Pokémon mobile game "Pokemon: Remastered" (Pocket Journey). The Guangdong Provincial Court ruled that the defendant Chinese company should The compensation of 107 million yuan (approximately NT$482 million) allowed everyone to once again see the terrifying winning rate of Nintendo’s legal department. Related reports: Is the strongest IP coming? Pokémon has completed its NFT patent application, and the Pokémon Card App will be launched at the end of October. Nintendo and Pokémon Game Company are recruiting Web3.0 talents! Understand NFT GameFi Yuanverse Steam's "Pallu" became popular, and meme coins PALW and PAL appeared on Ethereum and Solana. Nintendo sued "Pallu" for plagiarizing Pokémon! Netizen laughs: The strongest legal affairs will be fattened up in one year and then slaughtered> This article was first published in Dongqu BlockTempo "Dongqu Dongzhi - the most influential blockchain news media".