This week, the internet is flush with freshly self-appointed legal experts thanks to emerging news that Nintendo has added more patent weaponry to its ever-growing legal arsenal, including a patent on calling and battling companion characters that was seemingly rubber-stamped without pushback by US patent officials.

Yesterday, we published the opinions of videogame IP lawyer Kirk Sigmon , who called Nintendo's latest patents "an embarrassing failure of the US patent system." Other legal experts are now echoing Sigmon's skepticism—including the Pokémon Company's own former head lawyer.

As is typically the case in videogame patents, the new Nintendo patent generating outcry— US patent 12,403,397 —uses extremely specific language in its claims, which define in rigorous legalese the mechanic

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