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Nintendo Sued for Patent Infringement

On Wednesday August 20^th 2008 Hillcrest Laboratories, based in Maryland, filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission located in Washington DC, as well as a lawsuit for patent infringement against Nintendo Corp. Hillcrest accused Nintendo of infringing upon their claimed twenty nine patents, four dealing with the technology for a three-dimensional pointing device and graphic organization interface.

"Hillcrest Labs alleges that Nintendo violated patents relating to a handheld three-dimensonal pointing device."

"While Hillcrest Labs has a great deal of respect for Nintendo and the Wii, Hillcrest Labs believes that Nintendo is in clear violation of its patents and has taken this action to protect its intellectual property rights..."

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1 thumbs!
Magimaster | August 21, 2008

God, not again. As if they didn't take enough shit from Anascape. I can't believe they're actually allowed to sue on patents so vague.
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  Slumpy monkey | August 22, 2008
  
  You can sue on anything, Whether you will win is totally different.
3 thumbs!
Sakuraba Neku | August 22, 2008

Is sueing Nintendo the new fad?
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Spurs_Rule_And_Rock | August 22, 2008

Everyone likes to sue big companies and people really have a grudge against Nintendo.
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Livewire_19 | August 22, 2008

The Hillcrest labs controller is nothing like the wii-mote, but I would buy it if it was for gaming related purposes.
2 thumbs!
KernelKush | August 22, 2008

Hillcrest Labs says Nintendo's Wii Remote uses the same motion sensing technology their wheel-shaped controller does. They're suing because they believe that steps over the patent boundaries.
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Final Blade | August 23, 2008

_{Every company gets sued one way or another. MS and Sony god sued to taking rumble from Immersion without asking.

And Nintendo isn't going to be safe from it either. Sounds like they did step over the patent boundaries.}
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ehakobyan | September 03, 2008

According to experts estimates, if even Hillcrest claims are valid, the possibilities of satisfying what they demand are very small. Hillcrest insist to ban Nintendo sales in US. You can click the link to learn more. <a href="http://www.find-wii.net/2008/08/29/nintendo-accused-in-patent-infringement/">Nintendo Accused Of Patent Infringement</a>