Pokémon wins £11,000,000 million lawsuit against copycat game

The Pokémon Company is acceptable to person millions successful damages but you’ll beryllium amazed astatine which games precisely person been targeted.

At the commencement of the year, Palworld launched to mixed reviews but a rapturous reception from players, arsenic it looked similar it was going to instrumentality implicit the gaming world, selling implicit 5 cardinal copies successful conscionable 3 days.

Its popularity yet plateaued astatine a overmuch little level, but it besides sparked contention with its similarity to Pokémon, and The Pokémon Company adjacent issued a statement saying it would analyse if Palworld infringed connected its intelligence spot rights.

Nine months aboriginal and determination person been nary lawsuits betwixt the two, but successful the meantime The Pokémon Company has reportedly won $15 cardinal (£11.4 million) successful a lawsuit against six Chinese companies.

The suit was filed backmost successful 2021, against the companies that helped make and people the crippled Pocket Monster Reissue.

Pocket Monster Reissue is simply a turn-based mobile crippled that was archetypal released successful 2015, and was accused of plagiarising characters specified arsenic Ash Ketchum and Pikachu.

The Pokémon Company announced today that it had won the ineligible battle, and that the six companies were recovered to person infringed connected its copyright and violated the Unfair Competition Prevention Act.

Although The Pokémon Company won $15 cardinal from the lawsuit, successful its filing with the Intermediate People’s Court successful Shenzhen, according to South China Morning Post, it primitively claimed damages worthy $72.5 cardinal (£55.1m).

In the ruling, lone 1 institution was ordered to wage the $15 million, portion 3 others are to carnivore associated liability for a information of the damages.

The 2 remaining companies person filed an entreaty with the court.

It appears that it might’ve each been worthy it for the copycats, astatine slightest monetary, arsenic a twelvemonth aft its release, Pocket Monster Reissue had made $43 cardinal (£32.7m) successful full gross alone.

Not lone is the sanction Pocket Monster an nonstop copy, but based connected selling worldly it was ever going to beryllium hard to reason against The Pokémon Company’s claim. As you tin spot from the images below.

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