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NINTENDO DEFEATS NON-PRACTICING ENTITY IN GLOBAL PATENT FIGHT

US District Court Dismisses Case

REDMOND, Wash., May 19, 2014 – Nintendo has won a patent infringement case in a U.S. District Court in Texas. The case was brought in February 2009 by Wall Wireless, LLC, which claimed that the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi systems infringed a patent. Wall Wireless is a company whose primary business is enforcing patents. The court dismissed the case on May 19, 2014, after the United States Patent and Trademark Office canceled all the patent claims Wall Wireless was relying on in its case.

This dismissal follows a decision by the Japanese Patent Office, which also found that Nintendo’s products do not infringe Wall’s Japanese patents.

“We are very pleased to see the U.S. case dismissed, and also to have the Japanese Patent Office confirm that Nintendo does not infringe Wall’s Japanese patents,” said Richard Medway, Nintendo of America’s vice president and deputy general counsel. “Nintendo vigorously defends patent lawsuits and other proceedings when we believe we have not infringed another party’s patents. It does not matter where such cases are filed or if it takes more than five years to vindicate our position. Nintendo continues to develop unique and innovative products while respecting the intellectual property rights of others.”

EDITOR'S HYPERBOLE NOTE: A little background on the case is needed for this press release. Wall Wireless, LLC was established in Texas in 2008, but has an international division that was founded in 2001 and filed a patent for this concept: "Method and Apparatus for Creating and Distributing Real-Time Interactive Media Content through Wireless Communication Networks and the Internet." They recieved the patent in 2003 and served notices on Nintendo for the DS/DSi and Sony for the PSP in 2008. They took both companies to court in 2009. Wall Wireless, LLC was shown to not be "in practice" with their patent as they had not created anything that used the patent. Thus the patent was abandoned and the lawsuit dismissed. Just more proof about how slow moving our legal system really is when it comes to items like this. - Philip Wesley (Main Editor)

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