{"id":1789,"date":"2025-09-09T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:44:15","slug":"nintendo-and-accessory-maker-genki-reach-settlement-in-switch-2-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/nintendo-and-accessory-maker-genki-reach-settlement-in-switch-2-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo And Accessory Maker Genki Reach Settlement In Switch 2 Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Genki advertised its products well before the official reveal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the start of the year, as the hype around Switch 2 was beginning to reach fever pitch, accessory manufacturer Genki began to prematurely advertise its products for the then-upcoming console. Perhaps most notably, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/01\/accessory-maker-genki-to-discuss-switch-2-info-and-products-at-ces-2025\">showcased 3D-printed mockups of the Switch 2 during CES 2025<\/a> before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/genki-is-hosting-its-own-switch-2-accessories-direct-later-today\">broadcasting its own &#8216;Direct&#8217;<\/a> on the same day Nintendo revealed all regarding its new console.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo, as you can imagine, wasn&#8217;t best pleased about having its plans revealed early, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/05\/the-company-that-leaked-switch-2-is-being-sued-by-nintendo\">proceeded to file a lawsuit against Genki<\/a>, claiming that the latter had &#8220;demoed and promoted unauthorised purported mockups and renderings of the Nintendo Switch 2 and its accessories&#8221;. It also claimed Genki violated its trademarks by using names similar to the Switch, e.g. Glitch and Glitch 2.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/09\/nintendo-and-accessory-maker-genki-reach-settlement-in-switch-2-lawsuit\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genki advertised its products well before the official reveal. At the start of the year, as the hype around Switch 2 was beginning to reach fever pitch, accessory manufacturer Genki began to prematurely advertise its products for the then-upcoming console. Perhaps most notably, it showcased 3D-printed mockups of the Switch 2 during CES 2025 before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}