> A few years ago, Nintendo sued (and won) a fellow Japanese video game developer, COLOPL, for infringing on mechanics patents that Nintendo was holding as custodian for the industry. Why? Because COLOPL broke the gentlemen's agreement and filed their own patent for the mechanic.

I saw a video about this on YouTube the other day.

About 17 minutes long.

Titled “The Nintendo lawsuit you’ve never heard about”.

It was an interesting video. I recommend watching it. (To people here on HN in general, I mean.)

https://youtu.be/cbH9-lzx4LY