Nintendo and The Pokémon Company took some flack this week for being granted the patent for summoning a character and letting it fight another character. PC Gamer spoke with video game patent lawyer, Kirk Sigmon, about Nintendo and The Pokémon Company being granted such a used mechanic in video games and he stated that they should not have been granted the patent and that it should not have happened, full stop calling it “an embarrassing failure of the US patent system.”
“Broadly, I don’t disagree with the many online complaints about these Nintendo patents,” said Sigmon, whose opinions do not represent those of his firm and clients. “They have been an embarrassing failure of the US patent system.”
