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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  • Ryan

    Yay! More lawsuits! Couldn’t Motiva sue the company that is currently suing Nintendo for similar patents as well?

  • http://www.lonely-soda.com RF Larke

    I’m pretty sure that similar invention != stealing.

    Also what the heck? Wince when does Tendy make games about stealing? >_>

  • http://www.lonely-soda.com RF Larke

    ..ugh *since

  • K.P.Koops

    yay another patent can’t wait til my patent on the name koops turns my relations with nintendo into a monopoly

  • lz2008

    Didn’t Nintendo apply for a patent on the Wiimote technology in 2001?