- Aug 8, 2017
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The practice is branched patents, supposedly patents that are born from another but their validity starts from the base patent, I know them. But I was referring to the base patents, not to the branches of those, even so I am not very aware of how the issue is in Japan.In Japan you can. You can't even expedite patents in most countries, but again, in Japan you can. And from what I understand, modifying existing patents or making derivatives of them--not making brand new ones--before suing someone is an extremely common practice when you are going to sue someone.
Regarding free fan projects, it is true that Nintendo has sent several "Cease and desist" but I also notice that you do not know projects like Opalo, Añil, Reminicencia, Realidea, etc. that are Pokemon fangames (not romhacks) that are 100% finished and the many others that are in development, I am not lying if I tell you that there must be at least 30 Pokemon fangames in development.
The creators have never had (that I know of) problems with Nintendo, they are even responsible for the Twitch Pokemon Cup, content creators playing custom fangames for each one and all with the approval of Nintendo.