Nintendo Joins Companies Beating Patent-Claim ‘Bullies’ in Court
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Nintendo Co., the world’s biggest video-game maker, won a second U.S. patent-infringement case this month, successfully defending its Wii system and adding to a trend of companies fighting royalty demands and winning.
Nintendo didn’t infringe Copper Innovations Group LLC’s patent for a method of interaction between a computer and a device such as a joystick, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington ruled yesterday. On May 13, the court said the Wii didn’t infringe a system to track a player’s position.