>>28970590>If they're aware of infringement they have to pursue it or risk setting precedent which can be harmful in future legal cases.No you fucking don't, that's only with patents, and even then it takes like 10+ years of willfull neglect and the public actually treating it as a genercic term to happen
Them allowing fangames won't cause that, hell, them even allowing people to abuse the pokemon trademark/brand won't.
In order for that to happen, the ENTIRE gaming public would have to call any games similar to pokemon "pokemon games". Not "pokemon rip offs" or "mon games", but "pokemon games".
Digimon would have to be in the "pokemon" genre.
>that's dumbYeah, it is, which is why this almost never happens. Only time it has that I can recall is with frisbees and yo-yo's, which were originally just specific brands of those toys, but those names became so widespread, it went from "frisbee flying disc" to "frisbee", and a ""___ brand flying disc" would just be called a "___ frisbee" instead.
The word "nintendo" actually came a tiny bit close, since back in the dfay people used to call all video game "nintendo's" in some parts of the world, but even that never really got far
tl;dr inform yourself
