Wednesday, March 13, 2013

U.S. jury finds Nintendo liable for patent infringement

Logo of Nintendo Co is pictured outside the company headquarters building in Kyoto By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal jury in New York on Wednesday found that video game company Nintendo Co infringed an inventor's 3-D display technology patent with its handheld 3DS videogame system. The jury awarded the inventor, Seijiro Tomita, $30.2 million in compensatory damages. The patent relates to technology that Tomita developed for providing 3-D images without the need for 3-D glasses. In opening arguments last month, Tomita's attorney, Joe Diamante, told the jury in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that Nintendo used technology that Tomita developed for its 3DS. ...








via Gaming News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/u-jury-finds-nintendo-liable-patent-infringement-214709079--finance.html

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