Nintendo Suffers $21M Patent Infringement Award

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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Re:Patentability

[falcon5768]

The real question here is, how stupid is this Judge. Its not hard to look at the "evidence" and realize this company is a front for a patent troll, yet here we go again a judge with no technical background is smoke-screened by a company who makes no product and who's sole income has been through settling and lawsuits.

It doesnt take much to figure out whats going on here, yet apparently it was too much for this dolt.