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Nintendo Suffers $21M Patent Infringement Award

Posted by timothy on from the patent-rolling-your-eyes-derisively dept.

CowTipperGore writes "The AP reports (via Yahoo!) that Nintendo of America Inc. has been ordered to pay a small East Texas gaming company $21 million for infringing on a patent while designing controllers for its popular Wii and GameCube systems. No stranger to lawsuits over controller designs, a Nintendo spokesman said the company will seek an appeal. The suit was originally filed in 2006 and included Microsoft. Microsoft's aggressive legal push back apparently helped as they reached a (confidential) settlement agreement before the case went to trial."

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  1. Dumb patents abound by CogDissident · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, you do know Nintendo owns the patents on both: Water reflections in a video game The concept of "high score" Of course, they're not dumb enough to use them, but as part of their star fox 64 patent, they included those as sub-technologies that were patented, and it was approved.

  2. Re:Patentability by Uncle+Focker · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and there is no right to privacy outlined in the constitution. Looks like another person who has failed to read the 9th Amendment.

    The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Monster. Fucking. Fail.