I won’t comment on the Palworld lawsuit, because that well was already poisoned. This thread is only a reaction to the recent Games Fray article, and not to the lawsuit itself. For those who didn’t know, Games Fray has been a major source of legal commentaries on this case.
- The operator of Games Fray, Florian Mueller, is not a lawyer or paralegal, but a pay-to-play blogger/marketer, whose known clients include Microsoft, Blizzard, MySQL, Red Hat, Real Madrid, and Oracle.
- By his own admission, patent amendments are common. Nonetheless Mueller somehow alleged that it’s “bizarre” to use the phrase “even when” or “even if” in a claim, but those are machine translations!
- Even if we ignore the fact that he based his assertion on machine translations, in 2024 alone there were 832 internationally published patents containing “even when” in claims, and 593 with “even if”—two phrases Mueller said he’d “never seen” in 15 years.
- Also note that he did not consult a legal professional but quoted himself on this matter.
- Despite admitting that patent amendments are common, he chose to describe it as “odd”, “desperate”, and “a Hail Mary”, knowing full well that many outlets/influencers won’t verify it but simply amplify.
- If there had been anything untoward, why did the judge, who’d know better than a blogger, approve the amendment?
- Mueller also continues to miscategorize patent continuations as “new patents”, seemingly to imply that Nintendo hadn’t held relevant patents prior to the lawsuit.
- In 2025 Games Fray posted 16 articles, and 12 (75%) of them were about Nintendo. Even in the 4 that weren’t, Mueller mentioned the company anyway. Isn’t that weird for a blog ostensibly covering the “games industry and related regulatory issues”? As if the blog was created for a single purpose?
[Originally posted on 2025-07-21 Pacific Time]
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