Nintendo Loses Wii Remote Patent Lawsuit, Ordered To Pay Out $10 Million

Yawn.

So why has iLife not gone after Sony for the Move and MS for the Kinect?

Careful future commenters. Wannabe lawyers and judges below. Comment at your own risk. LOL

Just because some Court ruled it doesn't mean they're right they're only human like we are. Court Judges are human like we are too and like us they can and WILL make mistakes like we do as well.

"Nintendo does not infringe iLife’s patent and the patent is invalid"

Court of law just ruled otherwise, Nintendo!

So should/ could sony sue Ms for the kinect as it was based on the eye toy from the ps2 eta?

You know with so many technolog/names comeing out were bound to run into similiarities between them all so what you both detetect body movement except one is used in video games and the other is for medical purposes instead of going after each other for something out of your control like the very few ways of detecting the types the specific thing your trying to detect why don't you just accept that they are alike and quess what if you both explore your avenues and share your data you could make leaps and bounds in both your fields make both medical and video game uses better

I wonder when Apple will sue iLife for the lowercase "i" in the name "iLife". You know, "iLife", "iPhone". Right? Apple technically could sue them for a similarly questionable case.

Just like Sky sued Hello Games because of "No Man's Sky".

Heck, there was a company that sued Nintendo because of the "U" in "Wii U". Some courts should just dismiss some cases when they seem overly questionable. Seems like a waste of time AND money for most parties involved.

EDIT:I know I mostly spoke about cases involving "copyrighted" names (yeah right), but sometimes, cases involving patents can be just as ridiculous. I hope that if iLife is wrong, they'll lose.

If they are right though, they better win. But chances are, they are just there to get a piece of the success of the Wii (they could have filled a complaint way faster than that if there was reasonable doubt Nintendo copied their tech).

As for the Switch lawsuit, I wonder how it'll turn out. Seems like another ridiculous case as well.

Only $10m. That means royalties for each unit would have only been worth 10 cents.

Just because a jury decided on this case does not mean it is over. It will years before that will happen and most cases, Nintendo will eventually prevail on appeal.

Lol, the fact that you'd allow a jury to consider a case like this is absolutely stupid.

This sort of technical case should be decided by a panel of judges, which is exactly what will happen in appeals, and I'd bet money this ruling will be overturned.

The damage from this sort of case far exceeds the 10 million price tag if this ruling is allowed to stand; it stands to open the floodgates for similar, stupid cases like this.

Nintendo absolutely needs to bury them, even if legal fees surpass that 10 million.

@7tizz: http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2015/04/10/comprehensive-study-of-patent-trial-and-appeal-board-decisions/id=56675/

Per this study, 76% of these so-called patent holders have their patents invalidated in the appeal process.

I'll take my 76% odds, you keep your 24%.