Nintendo being sued over Wii copyright infringement
Nintendo, which once became infamous for being stingy with its own hardware licensing, is being accused of unlawfully using another company’s. Texas-based Lonestar Inventions LP recently filed a suit against Nintendo, charging that the Wii has infringed on Lonestar’s 1993 patent.
Lonestar patented a structure for capacitors which took up less space by using parallel conducting stripes. The suit alleges the same design appears in the Nintendo product. The company is seeking triple damages, though no specific amount was reported, and an injunction against Nintendo from using the disputed technology.
Lonestar has won suits against other companies for the same patent, settling licensing disputes with Texas Instruments, Broadcom Corp, and others.
Lawsuits over the Wii is nothing new for Nintendo. The company was taken to task late last year Interlink Electronics, who filed a complaint with the US District Court in Delaware concerning the WiiMote design.
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It might be worth noting that the last copyright infringement case dealt to Nintendo by patent trolls was withdrawn last year, according to The Escapist
on June 22, 2007 at 04:46 PM - LINK