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Nintendo Defeats and Assumes Control of 'Patent Troll's' Portfolio After Victory
the simurgh sends this news from Gamespot:
"Nintendo has acquired the entire patent portfolio of now-defunct IA Labs following its victory in court, the Japanese gaming giant has announced. Nintendo obtained the patents during a sheriff's sale in Montgomery County, Maryland on Tuesday. IA Labs originally sued Nintendo for patent infringement in 2010, claiming the Mario maker's Wii controller and Wii Fit technology infringed on two separate IA Labs patents. Nintendo successfully defended itself as part of a court battle in 2012, also winning various fees related to the case. IA Labs appealed the ruling, but an appellate court sided with Nintendo in June 2013. At this point, IA Labs was ordered to pay Nintendo additional fees, and when the company failed to do so, a sheriff's sale was commenced."
Labelling your opponents "trolls" will be the new corporate propaganda term, just like labeling copyright infringement "pirates".
I am sick of that company. Why won't they just die already. They are the least innovative company in the world. All they do is rehash the same crap year after year. They never created anything new in their life. Mario was just a ripoff of Pitfall. Zelda was just a ripoff of Atari Adventure.
All they do is steal other people's ideas and call it their own. Now, what's worse is that when a hard working company does all the hard work, Nintendo simply rips them off, sues them out of existence and steals their IP. Nintendo needs to die so we can go back to playing truly innovative games instead of the rehashed dreck that comes out of that IP stealing toy factory.
For all you Nintendo apologists who say that they save the video games, only the console market in America crashed and the PC market was just fine. Some PC maker would have come along and re-invented the wheel or a Japanese console would have become popular and made it's way to America. Video games were never in danger.