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hey there I’m Gary Schuster with Innovation Cafe and today I want to briefly talk about the Nintendo lawsuit over Pokémon go now you might have heard that they filed the patent infringement suit over Pokémon go patents now the thing is it was only Japanese patents that were involved or at least the reporting indicates that well here’s the trick about patents they’re super territorial so those patents validity ends at the shores of Japan it should not affect anything you do in the US unless of course there required to shut down in Japan and then that might affect their revenue etc etc but you are not going to be infringing a Japanese patent based on activity taking part entirely in a different country and neither will Nintendo’s competitors so we’ll have to see how it plays out they may have counterparts in other countries that they’re planning to sue over they may have other things that they intend to sue over like copyright but as it stands I’m not putting a whole lot of value on Nintendo