Sega has sued BOI (Financial institution of Innovation) for patent infringement in Memento Mori. In line with the documentation, Memento Mori infringes on 5 patents that Sega filed when it made Cryptract, which is now defunct. [Thanks, Game Watch!]
Sega is pursuing injunction in opposition to Memento Mori and is asking for 1 billion JPY in damages. That doesn’t embrace the delinquency cost that it desires so as to add. The lawsuit contains the numbers for the patents that BOI is supposedly infringing upon. All of them relate to the inner coding for gacha. For instance, 5930111 is a code or formulation that lets folks fuse uncommon playing cards simpler.
As BOI acquired the paperwork on October 21, 2024, it is likely to be some time earlier than we see any updates to this case. Nintendo filed a lawsuit in opposition to Pocketpair for patent infringement because of similarities between Pokemon and Palworld. Information of that lawsuit got here out in mid-September 2024 and there have been no public updates whilst we strategy the top of October 2024.
BOI plans to combat in opposition to these allegations, because it doesn’t consider it’s infringing on any mental rights from Sega. It acknowledges that this can trigger vital fear among the many gamers and other people concerned with the sport. It additionally states that it plans to proceed Memento Mori’s service it doesn’t matter what the end result of the lawsuit is.
Memento Mori is an AFK RPG (an idle sport) that follows witches, who’d been stigmatized by society, being the one hope the world has in opposition to calamity. As an idle sport, there’s very minimal gameplay. A lot of the promoting level appears to be the visuals and the music.
Memento Mori is on the market on Android, iOS, and Home windows PC.
