Nintendo Prevails in Another Wii Patent Lawsuit U.S. District Court Judge Grants Early Dismissal

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REDMOND, Wash., Jun 11, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- A U.S. District Court judge has summarily dismissed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Nintendo brought by Guardian Media Technologies, Ltd. Guardian had alleged that the Wii(TM) console infringed on one of its patents (U.S. Patent No. 4,930,158). Judge Manuel Real of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles entered an order granting Nintendo's motion for summary judgment of non-infringement on June 8, 2009, less than six months after the lawsuit was filed.

"We are very pleased with the Court's decision," said Rick Flamm, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of Legal and general counsel. "Nintendo vigorously defends patent lawsuits. At the earliest stages of this case, Nintendo convinced the Court to dismiss this case as Guardian's patent had nothing to do with Nintendo's products." For more information about Nintendo, visit www.Nintendo.com.

About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii(TM), Nintendo DS(TM) and Nintendo DSi(TM) systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System(TM), Nintendo has sold more than 2.9 billion video games and more than 496 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii, Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi, as well as the Game Boy(TM), Game Boy Advance, Super NES(TM), Nintendo 64(TM) and Nintendo GameCube(TM). It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario(TM), Donkey Kong(TM), Metroid(TM), Zelda(TM) and Pokemon(TM). A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, visit the company's Web site at www.Nintendo.com.

SOURCE: Nintendo CONTACT: Golin Harris Kristie Tomkins, 213-438-8830 ktomkins@golinharris.com Eileen Tanner, 509-628-1993 etanner@golinharris.com Copyright Business Wire 2009 -0- KEYWORD: United States

Nintendo attect two things like a magnet money and lawsuits. I wish people would stop doing that. Did they lose one yet?

not that i know of

They did lose one, but it was only $20 million. Either Nintendo got the appeal, or they just paid it.

Was this the one that wanted to put an end to the Classic Controller?

I am not sure but i think so

I would love to see a penalty on those who bring frivolous lawsuits.

Mike from Morgantown

In their face another one bites the dust thought they lost to one no biggie.

I'm tired of the easy cash grab. In some cases they have a legit concern, but often not a legit case. Theres the patent sitters who like cybersqauters are just scum, but there are those companies that make valid technologies. What they lack is understanding how to get it our there. So now they have pretty much the same tech, but some other company now will be making money and they are left with near nothing for the effort. It's unfortunate, but it does happen. The ones who take the case to Texas are automatically scumm.