Except, of course, that this isn’t a copyright suit it’s a patent lawsuit. So any similarities of character design is irrelevant to this case.

None of these are rip-offs. The comparisons are kind of ridiculous, a Pal that looks like a penguin, they must have stolen that idea from the Pokemon that looks like a penguin.

I don't want to live in a world where something like this would be considered copyright infringement, something that even Nintendo doesn't seem to focus on (I guess for a reason).

Not all of them, some of them are stretches, but quite a few of them are clear ripoffs if you are objective.

Which ones? List them, I don't see any rip offs. Maybe you're better than Nintendo lawyers at finding them.

They are always sort of a stretch like "Electric mouse" or "Egyptian cat".

In my non-lawyer opinion, it's in the same vein as saying that DC should sue Marvel over Captain Marvel being a Superman rip-off.

> "Egyptian Cat"

Ok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis I think Pocket Pair are not the first to take some inspiration there.

If that first article is the best you have, then that's a bad pile of articles. Those designs are not very close.

I see no creature design comparisons in links 2-4.

Article 5, wow it's a cartoon sheep. Wow it's a cartoon fox. This list at the end is trying way too hard.

I think what "most people see" is that they're overall similar to pokemon. Not that palworld is copying specific designs in a way that pokemon itself doesn't do.

The examples were in my original YouTube post - it goes on for a really long time time.

The latest set of links was to show that a majority of reviews considered PalWorld to be a ripoff of Pokemon.

Anyhow, top voted comment on this whole hacker news article is a satirical article on how PalWorld copied Pokemon characters but added guns, so yeah, you guys claiming it isn't a ripoff have minority viewpoints but you are pretty insistent on it, so have fun with that!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41588152

"ripoff" is a very vague term and not equivalent to copying specific creature designs. I can call lots of AAA games ripoffs. I'm not specifically saying PalWorld isn't a ripoff here, what people call ripoff is pretty subjective, I'm saying the designs are fine. (Though the gameplay is very different from pokemon.)

It is indeed satirical but you can agree with the SEO spam you sent before, just don't expect people to agree with you and whine about it if they don't, in fact I really doubt it's the minority viewpoint given you got downvoted and plenty of people upvoted mine, reality speaks for itself.

Note that this suit is a patent claim, not the trademark or copyright claim one might expect from visual similarity.

I'm surprised Nintendo took so long to sue them. It was so obvious from the get-go.