Topic: Nintendo Victorious in Patent Suit

[NWR_pap64]

A lawsuit against Nintendo brought about by Guardian Media Technologies about the Wii Remote has been dismissed. .
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=18895

 A U.S. District court judge recently dismissed a lawsuit brought by Guardian Media Technologies made against Nintendo involving a patent and the Wii Remote.    

Guardian Media Technologies claims that Nintendo violated one of their patents when creating the Wii Remote. The case was dismissed on June 8.    

Nintendo of America's Senior VP of Legal and General Counsel Rick Flamm has confirmed that Nintendo "is very pleased with the Court's decision."    

This isn't the first time Nintendo has faced lawsuits involving the Wii Remote. The most recent example of this was the suit against Fenner Technologies involving input ports. That case was dismissed last March.  Nintendo has also been doing their share of suing. They sued peripheral maker Nyko for attempting to sell a controller that resembled the Nunchuk. This was settled last December

[BlackNMild2k1]

What was the case that got dismissed? What was the other companies claim?

[Stratos]

I think this one had to do with a device that detected motion. If I recall correctly the patent was rediculously vague on it's descriptions of the product.

Trying to follow these game patent lawsuits are difficult. Half of them you hear about the initial lawsuit but not the resolution. A lot just slip by without any notice. You almost need to has someone on staff as a legal correspondent to keep track of them all.

Like, does anyone know what happened with the Konami vs Harmonix deal?

Probably because a lot settle out of court the public doesn't always hear the ending.

[TJ Spyke]

Lawsuits can sometimes take years to settle (the Nintendo/Universal lawsuit lasted about 2 years). From the searching I did, the lawsuit is still under way.

[Mop it up]

Just another fool trying to get a piece of Nintendo's pie.

[AV]

I find it funny Nintendo usually isn't hurt, but Sony and Microsoft had to pay millions a few years back.

[Madcat221]

Yay!  Patent troll DENIED.

[TJ Spyke]

I find it funny Nintendo usually isn't hurt, but Sony and Microsoft had to pay millions a few years back.

Nintendo is usually smarter. They came out with their own rumble technology rather than just stealing another companies tech (like Microsoft and Sony did when they used Immersion Technologies rumble tech without licensing it).

[BlackNMild2k1]

I think its more along the lines that Sony (moreso than MS) just developed what they wanted and never checked to see if it was patented until it was ready for release.

Nintendo on the other hand decided what they wanted and then checked all the patents that come even close to what they want to design, then designs around them as not to impose on other patents, then patents their own carefully researched design. Thats why everytimg Nintendo does something, they are either really late to the table and/or they do it in some round about way that makes no sense to anyone as there are other more known ways to already do what they are doing.