On April 28, a federal appeals court confirmed that the patent asserted against Nintendo by RecogniCorp should never have been granted. The court’s order resolves a patent infringement lawsuit originally filed against Nintendo in 2011, in which RecogniCorp, LLC claimed that Nintendo’s Mii characters employed the same techniques described in the patent for making police sketches of suspects.
“We are very pleased with the court’s decision,” said Ajay Singh, Nintendo of America’s Director of Litigation and Compliance. “The decision marks another case in which Nintendo’s unique ideas overcame unjustified threats of patent infringement. Nintendo has a long history of developing innovative products and we will continue to vigorously defend all our products from meritless patent lawsuits.”
||Victory after victory after victory, inevitability…||
And this took SIX years.
“The new Nintendo product has 1 tiny thing out product has, LETS SUE!”
-Random companies
Victory, sweet victory!
Dumbasses.
Ohhh nooooo, those characters for game consoles are totally going to kill our suspect sketches for the police™ business now….
Gotta love some victory. Nintendo always win.
Sue, Sue, Yes I’m gonna Sue! Sue, sue, Yes I’m gonna sue you!
This just in: RecogniCorp sues Leonardo Da Vinci because they have a patent on how to draw a smile.
that comment made me laugh darthchrisb
Another patent troll bites the dust-AH!