Remember the Pokemon gene? Well, Nintendo's suing...

[FabuVinny]

Unfortunately, the article about this can only be read if you have a subscription to that site, but I did get this from Google News:

A cancer research institute has been threatened with legal action by the US branch of Japanese video-game franchise Pokémon, after one of its researchers ...

 

[SealElement]

WTF? Did SEGA sue for the Sonic Hedgehog gene?

 

[absol attacker]

well, i'd have to admit that naming something cancer-related after something like pokemon is a bit....odd.

 

[blaze boy]

that a bit stupid I mean it would get more kid in to pokemon and at the same time they are learning something.

Nintendo really are money greedy.

 

[MondoTR]

Like I said at BMGf, someone should quote the article.

 

[Glowstick_cult]

Yeah, but if the cancer research club name a disease 'Pokemon', then people will associate Pokemon (yanno, that video game you play) with disease. You know how dumb people are.

I doubt that having a disease called 'Pokemon' will to too good for Nintendo. Say, if it's a lethal sickness, people will say 'My friend or family member died of Pokemon." o_0 Then Nintendo says "OMG, we're putting a new Pokemon game out."
Then the grieving family sue Nintendo. Hey, these things DO happen.
But overall, this disease will give Pokemon an even more negative twist than it has now.

 

[intergalactic platypus]

LMFAO!!!! now that i have that out of my system, the whole idea of naming a cancer virus after a popular video game series is just....LOL. it seems to make like no sense. i wonder if itll happen again i mean imagine the final fantasy virus?!

 

[blaze boy]

hey my friend die of a final fantasy virus no really he did we saw him play the game for days after days and I think it made his mind snap.

 

[Dark Venusaur]

WTF how can this possibly happend.

;003;Dark Venusaur;003;

 

[RaZoR LeAf]

Yeah, but if the cancer research club name a disease 'Pokemon', then people will associate Pokemon (yanno, that video game you play) with disease. You know how dumb people are.

I doubt that having a disease called 'Pokemon' will to too good for Nintendo. Say, if it's a lethal sickness, people will say 'My friend or family member died of Pokemon." o_0 Then Nintendo says "OMG, we're putting a new Pokemon game out."
Then the grieving family sue Nintendo. Hey, these things DO happen.
But overall, this disease will give Pokemon an even more negative twist than it has now.

God ****ing dammit how many more times does it have to be said.. IT'S NOT A ****ING DISEASE! Did you bother to actually READ the damn article any of the 50 times it's been posted? Or did you just read the word 'cancer' and think "Holy **** Pokemon causes cancer!"? Gees how many times does it have to be constantly repeated before people actually listen?

The Pokemon gene, which stands for POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic factor (most likely a backronym), is a gene that may act as a master switch for cancer. The leader of the research team which discovered this, geneticist Pier Paolo Pandolfi from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, said the Pokemon gene is unique in that it is needed for other oncogenes to cause cancer.[1]

LMFAO!!!! now that i have that out of my system, the whole idea of naming a cancer virus after a popular video game series is just....LOL. it seems to make like no sense. i wonder if itll happen again i mean imagine the final fantasy virus?!

Cancer isn't a virus, it's an abnormal mutation of healthy cells in the body.


Quote of article pls.

 

[Praetor]

i can understand why nintendo is doing this because it may be free publicity but theres good free publicity and theres bad free publicity and as you've aforementioned, this associates pokemon with cancer related diseases. and thats bad publicity

i wouldnt sue but instead would ask the people to change the name

 

[ProtoManEXE88]

It wasn't intentional to name it after pokemon... there were like three things they combined into one that came up to be pokemon

Pok was short for something
Em was something else
and Mon was something else.

Combined, Pokemon. The scientists might not've had a clue, not everyone knows everything you know... did I just say that about a scientist?

 

[Naraku_Diabolos]

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/54387.cfm

There's the original article. I know that Razor Leaf found it before I did.

 

[S:C]

Nintendo really are money greedy.

They are. This lawsuit is worth "protecting their image" so much when people already understand that nothing about Nintendo is bad here - before the suit, anyways.

 

[skiboydoggy]

The Pokemon gene... I have Charizard in my bloodstream...
Well, it is the USA branch of Nintendo, and as we all know, these kind of things are rarely relayed to HQ before going ahead, therefore nobody can really say that Nintendo is greedy.
Nintedo is based in Japan.

Stepping back a little, it really is hilarious and utterly pointless.
(Imagines Nintendo people going: "Lyk OMG! Pokemon can be interpreted as a mass of three different technical words that nobody knows that is related to cancer! SUE! MARY! SUE!)

 

[YoshiAngemon]

It's not like Nintendo would just follow Square Enix's footsteps and rename Pokemon "Pocket Monsters," like how Square Enix brought the sequel to Dragon Warrior VII out as "Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King." That would be going too far.

 

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Nintendo really are money greedy.

No, I think you are referring to Microsoft. They tried to buy out Nintendo a year or two years ago. That article was on IGN. Bill Gates wanted to buy out Nintendo of Japan. Besides, Gates owns a monopoly with hardware and software, you know.

 

[feebas_factor]

First of all, I agree with razor leaf... they didn't name a disease or a virus "pokemon", they named a gene that is related to cells becoming cancerous. And pokemon here stands for "POK (I don't know what that is) Erythroid Myeloid OntogeNic" factor. Funnily enough, there are two versions of this article about, one with the name "POKEMON gene" and the other having changed it to "Zbtb7". But for nintendo to sue over this is beyond stupid... yes I'm sure that everyone has heard about this gene in detail and is now going to stop buying pokemon games because of it. If anything, suing is making it worse, because A) Nintendo is making itself look like a moronic "sue-at-a-glance" corportation (which I hope it's not) and B) It's drawing way more attention to the gene with this lawsuit than it would have gotten anyway. Conclusion: Nintendo of America are idiots. I'm pretty sure there was some other stupid thing they sued over awhile back too, someone listing "legend of zelda" as one of their interests on a site or something

 

[FabuVinny]

Why choose those letters, though? Considering the popularity five years ago, it is unlikely that the scientists have never heard of this.

And eleven months is hardly "sue at a glance".

 

[Atomic Boo]

Yeah, the Sonic Hedgehog gene was usefull at least. So I agree with Nintendo not wanting Pokemon to be used as a name for a cancerous gene.