Nintendo Wii Facing Sales Ban Judge Rules

[CoFree]

Nintendo Wii Facing Sales Ban Judge Rules
By Wire Services

Nintendo is facing a sales ban on some of its game machines following a court decision in the US that overturned a $21 million patent-infringement.

Controllers for its Wii and GameCube systems may be taken off the shelves after a US district judge rejected Nintendo's request for a new trial in the case won by closely held Anascape. The ban will be put on hold while Nintendo appeals the verdict to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Nintendo may escape the ban by posting a bond or putting royalties in escrow. A Nintendo spokesman says the company plans to make a federal appeal, and retains the right to sell the Wii Classic Controller pending the appeal.

In other Nintendo news Simon Jeffrey from Sega said that Resident Evil 5 will be launched on the Nintendo Wii soon. Simon Jeffrey is the president of Sega of America.

[sadalius]

Does this just affect the classic controller or what? Not finding much information as to what all the suit is geared towards.

[CoFree]

ill post up the source.
as soon as i get on the other computer.

[CoFree]

here is more on it.
It looks like it hitting the main stream now.

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Yet Another Nintendo Controller Suit
By Kris Graft

Just three months after a federal court ordered Nintendo to pay $21 million for controller patent infringements, a new party intends to take the game maker to court.

Hillcrest Laboratories said Nintendo has infringed on patents pertaining to motion control technology and graphical interface software, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

A complaint filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission says that Maryland-based Hillcrest seeks to block Wii and Wii Remote imports from Kyoto, Japan-based Nintendo.

The plaintiff said in a statement, "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."

Bloomberg notes that the ITC has the authority to block imports of patent-infringing products.

For now, the ITC will investigate the complaint, a process that could take 15 months before a decision is reached.

Nintendo currently has product-related lawsuits pending in Texas, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Wilmington, Delaware.

[sadalius]

Dang, seems everybody wants a piece of Nintendo, don't they?

[CoFree]

well
i think its funny all this crap is starting now.
they have known that the wii and controller were being made.
now that its making a crap load of money everybody wants some.
if the wii had been a bust i bet not a damn one of them company's would have said a word.

[sadalius]

Yeah, thats one reason I said that everybody wants a piece of Nintendo. I agree 100% with ya man!! They want to try and cash in