Nintendo is a mega company. Their actions on things like this is how patent law gets defined to begin with.
So if it wasn't allowed prior, it might be now just because they had the lawyers and money to convince people it was. And Japan is way more absurd about the ways you can abuse copyright/patents to begin with.
How is a fictional concept like that even patentable to begin with? Don't patents have to involve design or utility in real life?
Nintendo is a mega company. Their actions on things like this is how patent law gets defined to begin with.
So if it wasn't allowed prior, it might be now just because they had the lawyers and money to convince people it was. And Japan is way more absurd about the ways you can abuse copyright/patents to begin with.
The court will accuse them of bringing “great dishonour” and demand they commit sepeku on a livestream