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Nintendo Co. can Shout Wii over Legal Victory

By Chris Bennett, Tudor Carsten, Michael R. Coburn, Sarah Dale-Harris, Pablo Guzman, Danielle (Dani) Lemon, Chris Metcalfe and David Spratley

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It has been reported that Nintendo Co. has won the dismissal of a lawsuit instituted by Guardian Media Technologies Ltd ("Guardian"). It was reported that the Texas based plaintiff had alleged that Nintendo Co., in its Wii video-game system, had infringed its patent for a technology used to impose parental controls. The judge allegedly found that the Wii doesn't play movies or television programs, and it does not use a parental-control function that affects the playback of "video programs." Guardian reportedly sued other companies, retailers and electronics makers including Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., RadioShack Corp. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The court allegedly found that the claims against Nintendo Co. were separate from the claims for relief leveled against the other defendants and that Nintendo Co. should not have to wait for the entire case to be completed for its dismissal.

Coverage at Bloomberg.com

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Full post as published by Video Game Law Blog on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).