Nintendo of America was ordered to pay $21 Million after being found guilty in a controller patent infringement lawsuit that was originally filled by Texas based Anascape Ltd.
Nintendo spokesman Charlie Scibetta said the company will seek an appeal and expects the court to reduce the award “significantly.”
The jury found that Nintendo infringed on Anascape’s patent while designing its Wii Classic, WaveBird and Gamecube controllers.
Anascape also went after Microsoft in a similar lawsuit that was settled out of court before the trial against Nintendo started.
via MCV
-Justin
[...] I’m not even going to pretend that I understand exactly how Anascape claims Nintendo infringed upon their patent, but this whole thing strikes me as being absurd. The entire video game industry has taken ideas from each other for as long as I can remember and Nintendo in particular has had more than just a few their ideas show up on the non-Nintendo systems. [...]