The company will have to pay 10 million dollars to an American company, which asked for 144 million dollars.
Nintendo, after appealing last August the sentence in which it was accused of violating an American patent in the development of the Wii Wiimote, it seems that it will have to go through the box: the United States Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the company iLife, which means that the Kyoto firm is close to giving up 10.1 million dollars in damages. He still has to appeal the verdict once a judge issues the ruling, but the case is close to final closure.
According to the American portal Glixel, the trial against Nintendo began four years ago, when the law firm Munck Wilson Mandala took over the case in which iLife Techonolgies Inc. came to ask 144 million dollars from the creators of Wii. The technology based on accelerometers used by the Texas company, which claimed in its patent that it could be used in different applications for what was originally used, was intended to prevent the sudden death syndrome of children of breastfeeding age or falls of old people.
As soon as the verdict was heard last August, Nintendo appealed that the patent filed by the company iLife, by its description, should be considered null. The argument put forward by the Japanese was rejected by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in charge of the appeals of the Board of Appeals and Patent Evidence in the United States. Will wait to know what is the next step by the creators of the popular Wii Remote.
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