The pokemon game was developed by Nintendo. They possess full ownership of Pokemon and they are the only owner. More, the first pokemon was Rhdyon, and while Pikachu has been 20 years old while Pokemon go was invented by an American company. Niantic Inc is basically a software development company working from San Francisco. Today, Niantic is a well-known software company due to ingress and pokemon go. The headquarter of Niantic lab are in San Francisco, California, and United States. In the end, John Hanke is the founder of Niantic labs. The software lab came into being in 2010.