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: Intellectual Property LawBluetooth Blues for Nintendo and Sony
By Sheppard Mullin
Nintendo and Sony face a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Copper Innovations Group in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania based company filed a patent in 1996 for a "Hand Held Computer Input Apparatus and Method." The method described therein provides for hardware identification numbers to be assigned to specified device transmissions that would then be used as a means to organize the input of these transmissions when connecting them to a system. The suit targets the Remote and Nunchuk from Nintendo's wildly popular Wii gaming system in addition to Sony's Sixaxis controller and Blu-ray remote.
Full post as published by Intellectual Property Law on January 17, 2008 (boomark / email).
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