Nintendo wins patent dispute against Wii console
Court finds that Nintendo's console does not infringe on patents by another company
Nintendo has confirmed that this week, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals found that Nintendo’s Wii console does not infringe patents asserted by UltimatePointer, LLC.
This decision confirms Nintendo’s win in a Seattle Federal court, where UltimatePointer claimed that the Wii infringed patent numbers 8,049,729 and 7,746,321.
The Appeals Court also confirmed the Seattle Court’s ruling that UltimatePointer was required to pay some of Nintendo’s attorney fees. UltimatePointer was found to have engaged in “bad faith, vexatious, [and] wanton” conduct when deciding to accuse products it had not investigated and that, in some cases, did not exist.
The Wii was released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As of December 31, 2015, over 100 million units have been sold worldwide; in December 2009, the console broke the sales record for a single month in the United States.
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