Nov 12 2008
Nintendo sued over Wii Remote again
Deja vu! Nintendo is being sued by the Ohio-based company, Motiva, who claim that Nintendo’s Wii Remote is a violation of a patent they filed in May of 2004. The patent involves a “hand-held tracking device in communication with a base station that can be used to create an interactive gaming experience, among other capabilities.”
The Lanier Law Firm, counsel for Motiva, had this to say:
Using someone else’s technology without permission is theft.
Editors note: The dictionary disagrees. You’d think a lawyer would know that.
Nintendo makes video games where you get to play a thief, but that doesn’t give them the right to be one.
Well they’re obviously talking about Link’s Awakening, pictured above.
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Yay! More lawsuits! Couldn’t Motiva sue the company that is currently suing Nintendo for similar patents as well?
I’m pretty sure that similar invention != stealing.
Also what the heck? Wince when does Tendy make games about stealing? >_>
..ugh *since
yay another patent can’t wait til my patent on the name koops turns my relations with nintendo into a monopoly
Didn’t Nintendo apply for a patent on the Wiimote technology in 2001?