Nintendo found guilty of Sonying, fined $30 million

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BasilZero said:

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BaldrSkies said:
I don't think Sony has anything to do with this...

Just because the guy worked at Sony for years doesn't make his patent Sony's patent.

So, you are telling that technically Nintendo didn't copy Sony, but someone else?

Seijiro Tomita, the founder of Tomita Technologies and holder of a glasses-free 3D patent, alleges that neither Nintendo nor Nintendo of America have appropriate licensing to use his invention in the 3DS. He holds patent no. 7,417,664 in the United States and the same patent in Japan.

http://kotaku.com/5819199/retired-sony-engineer-says-3ds-copied-his-patent

So, Seijiro Tomita got a good donative from his friend Nintendo.