{"id":84377,"date":"2026-06-12T07:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84377"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:38:21","slug":"nintendo-may-only-win-30000-payout-in-pokemon-legal-battle-with-palworld-developer-pocketpair-ip-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84377","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo May Only Win $30,000 Payout in Pok\u00e9mon Legal Battle With Palworld Developer Pocketpair, IP Expert Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Nintendo may only receive a $30,000 payout if it wins its high-profile legal battle with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/palworld\">Palworld<\/a> developer Pocketpair, an IP expert has said. But it&#8217;s looking increasingly likely that Nintendo will lose.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company are currently embroiled in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/nintendo-and-the-pokmon-company-officially-suing-palworld-developer-over-multiple-patent-infringements\">ongoing litigation with Pocketpair<\/a> in Japan, with patents that revolve around how Pok\u00e9mon games work at the heart of the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Palworld arrived on Steam priced $30 and launched straight into Game Pass on Xbox and PC in early 2024, breaking sales and concurrent player number records in the process. Pocketpair boss Takuro Mizobe has said Palworld&#8217;s launch was so big that the developer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/palworld-dev-says-massive-profits-are-too-big-for-a-studio-with-our-size-to-handle\">couldn\u2019t handle the massive profits the game generated<\/a>. Still, Pocketpair acted swiftly to capitalize on Palworld\u2019s breakout success, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/palworld-dev-signs-deal-with-sony-to-form-palworld-entertainment-and-expand-the-ip\">signing a deal with Sony<\/a> to form a new business called Palworld Entertainment that\u2019s tasked with expanding the IP. It later launched the game on PS5.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"palworld-official-10-cinematic-trailer-ign-summer-of-gaming-2026\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>After Palworld\u2019s huge launch, comparisons were made between Palworld\u2019s Pals and Pok\u00e9mon, with some accusing Pocketpair of &#8220;ripping off&#8221; Pok\u00e9mon designs. But rather than file a copyright infringement lawsuit, Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company went down the patent route. In the initial lawsuit, the two companies called for 5 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo may only receive a $30,000 payout if it wins its high-profile legal battle with Palworld developer Pocketpair, an IP expert has said. But it&#8217;s looking increasingly likely that Nintendo will lose. Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company are currently embroiled in ongoing litigation with Pocketpair in Japan, with patents that revolve around how Pok\u00e9mon games&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":84379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84381,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84377\/revisions\/84381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}