
With each passing year I find it increasingly difficult to explain to people why I’m such an ardent supporter of video games. It’s not that I enjoy them any less than I did decades ago or find my interest in them has waned and stagnated. Quite the contrary, I often lament the fact that career and personal responsibility to my continued physical existence eclipses my unfettered desire to fuse myself to an unkempt scrap of furniture for hours on end while I mentally filter out the incessant aggravations of reality. Ultimately that would be the most alluring draw of these products. Forget my mounting debt and complete lack of an established objective in my five-year-plan, I’m far more concerned with guiding these impossibly attractive Japanese teens through a television themed hedge-maze populated with nightmarish vestiges of repressed human emotion. If my own malicious eccentricities manifested themselves in such intrinsically alluring forms I would be more content to grapple with the...

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).
Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.
Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.
Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.
LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.