{"id":694144,"date":"2025-08-27T00:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/pokemon-company-sues-chinese-mobile-game"},"modified":"2025-08-27T00:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:03:42","slug":"the-pokemon-company-sues-chinese-mobile-game-company-over-intellectual-property-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-pokemon-company-sues-chinese-mobile-game-company-over-intellectual-property-infringement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pok\u00e9mon Company sues Chinese mobile game company over intellectual property infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-pokemon-company-sues-chinese-mobile-game-company-over-intellectual-property-infringement.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><strong>The Pok&eacute;mon Company<\/strong> is suing multiple Chinese mobile game operators over a game that allegedly looks a bit too much like <strong>Pok&eacute;mon<\/strong>, Pocket Monster Reissue.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3191000\/pokemon-company-sues-chinese-mobile-game-operators-intellectual\">South China Morning Post<\/a> (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/pokemon-company-sues-over-chinese-game-pocket-monster-reissue\">GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>), The Pok&eacute;mon Company is taking legal action against six Chinese companies over copyright infringement and unfair competition behaviour, due to some striking similarities between Pok&eacute;mon and Pocket Monster Reissue, also known as Koudaiyaoguai Fuke.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the six companies in question have been running the game since 2015, based on a stock exchange filing from Jiangyin Zhongnan Heavy Industries Co, one of the defendants. In turn, The Pok&eacute;mon Company has put in a request at the Shenzhen Intermediate People&#8217;s Court looking to have an order placed against the six companies to prevent them from working on Pocket Monster Reissue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/pokemon-company-sues-chinese-mobile-game\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/pokemon-company-sues-chinese-mobile-game\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pok&eacute;mon Company is suing multiple Chinese mobile game operators over a game that allegedly looks a bit too much like Pok&eacute;mon, Pocket Monster Reissue. As reported by South China Morning Post (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz), The Pok&eacute;mon Company is taking legal action against six Chinese companies over copyright infringement and unfair competition behaviour, due to some striking similarities between Pok&eacute;mon and Pocket Monster Reissue, also known as Koudaiyaoguai Fuke. Apparently the six companies in question have been running the game since 2015, based on a stock exchange filing from Jiangyin Zhongnan Heavy Industries Co, one of the defendants. In turn, The Pok&eacute;mon Company has put in a request at the Shenzhen Intermediate People&#8217;s Court looking to have an order placed against the six companies to prevent&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-pokemon-company-sues-chinese-mobile-game-company-over-intellectual-property-infringement\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13,21,424,6962,6964,6963,34],"class_list":["post-694144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-open-world","tag-pokemon-scarlet","tag-pokemon-scarlet-and-violet","tag-pokemon-violet","tag-rpg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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