This lawsuit is patent based for an in-game mechanic, not about the design of the creatures.

Oh wow. I didn't even bother reading it at first since I assumed it had to be the characters. Reading up, it seems Nintendo has a ton of patents on game mechanics, which they probably have never used in a suit before. And apparently, they filed for a patent on throwing a ball to capture a monster mechanic AFTER Palworld released. Pretty scummy move, IMO.

Yeah in reading up on this I learned that the “arrow” in Crazy Taxi was patented so up until around 2016, no other game was allowed to have a pointing arrow when navigating.

Interesting to see how this shakes up. If Niantic wins what happens to those of us who bought Palworld? I already met my hour played per dollar spent ratio so I'm good and loved it, but do we lose access without refund?

Ah, good point, though we still don't know which patents are in question, right?

I’m not 100%, but I think it was mentioned to be about the capturing mechanic.