Ah, Nintendogs, now there’s a reputation we haven’t heard shortly. The mega-franchise was final seen with Nintendogs + Cats on the Nintendo 3DS, the place it didn’t fairly hit as exhausting because it did on the DS. Now it seems to be like, possibly, probably, Nintendo is doing one thing with it once more.
In the course of the week, a brand new patent was launched from america Patent and Trademark Workplace suggests one thing could also be taking place. Now whereas it doesn’t say “New Nintendogs”, it does have some illustrations exhibiting a consumer utilizing their smartphone to position a canine in AR house. These patents are normally very broad and normal, so Nintendo might have simply used a canine as a result of – that’s what the particular person creating the patent wished. The following half is the place it will get fascinating.
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On the identical day the patent was filed with america authorities, a trademark for “NINTENDOGS” was filed right here in Australia. Each of them had been filed on November fifth 2021. This trademark was noticed by Vooks alumni Oliver Brandt over on information.com.au
This capitalised NINTENDOGS is totally different from the prevailing “Nintendogs” (lowercase), and Nintendogs + Cats trademark. The newer trademark is barely totally different from the latter, with them being Class 9 and 41 emblems. The newer one is simply Class 41, a “sport companies supplied on-line from a pc community”. Class 9 emblems particularly are video video games. It’s doable that this new Nintendogs if it does exist, isn’t categorised as a sport and extra a video pet or comparable, particularly because it’s now cell.
There’s plenty of conjecture there, however the patent, the trademark current and being filed on the identical day, get us – one thing.
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We’ll let you already know if something official is introduced.