- RecogniCorp LLC filed a case in 2011 claiming that the Mii characters used on Nintendo’s systems, including Wii U, Wii and Nintendo 3DS, infringed the U.S.
Patent No. 8,005,303, which relates to ways of storing police sketch-artist data
- Judge Jones ruled that the patent attempted to monopolize mathematical operations, ruling against it
- Ajay Singh, Nintendo of America’s Director of Litigation and Compliance, reacted to the determination:
“We are very pleased with Judge Jones’ decision, which finally put an end to RecogniCorp’s attempt to cover inventions to which it has no rights,”
“Nintendo will continue to protect its products and innovations against accusations of patent infringement.”
Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:
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