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Ok. Palworld (a pocket monster style game like Digimon or Pokemon) released in 2024. Some people claimed it stole assets from Pokemon (or heavily plagiarized them). This has since been debunked but continues to be a bone of contention for some.
Nintendo decided to sue for patent infringement based on game mechanics (not monster design), and apply for new parents on game mechanics like mounts/creature riding mechanics, and the ability to catch creatures to enable the lawsuit against the developer of Palworld, Pocketpair.
This lawsuit has been ongoing for a couple of years now and in that time, Pocketpair have made changes to Palworld to further differentiate their game's mechanics from Pokemon games in order to mitigate the damages from the lawsuit.
If you are so inclined you can read more about it here:
https://www.ip-brief.com/blogs/nintendo-is-wrong-on-one-patent-claim-against-palworld