Nintendo Patent CRUSHED By US Patent Office! This Will Help PALWORLD?!

Nintendo's patent war on Palworld just got wrecked in the US -- the USPTO slapped a full non-final rejection on all 26 claims of their brand-new "summon a sub-character and let it fight in auto or manual mode" patent after the Director himself ordered a rare reexamination citing prior art from Konami and even Nintendo's own old filings. This was one of the key US patents they rushed through to bolster the Japan lawsuit against Pocketpair's creature-catching survival hit -- yeah the same mechanics Nintendo's been trying to lock down retroactively while Palworld keeps shipping updates.