>>56466693people get away with patenting all kinds of shit they can't really patent, and this is a lawsuit claiming that they own game mechanics like moving and opening menus, so if they win:
>1. they own video games, all of them, all of them are patent infringing>2. japan's government approves of this and they have a valid legal precedent>3. they have the unironic actual intent of taking down competitors on these groundsnormally this stuff can't hold up in court and is just an intimidation tactic since the company still has to pay a lawyer to defend it or ninty wins by default, but if they have as much sway as people claim and can get away with this, they own all video games ever made
