Nintendo Loses 3DS Lawsuit, Fined $30.2 Million

Inventor Seijiro Tomita has won a lawsuit against Nintendo for his patents and ideas for glasses-free 3D screens.

Tomita has been doing battle against Nintendo since 2011 and after much deliberation into what elements of the patent overlap Nintendo and Sharp's designs with the 3DS, a verdict has been ruled in Tomita's favour by a US jury.

The inventor had claimed that technology he developed and patented was used in the Nintendo 3DS without his consent or compensation. Both Nintendo and Tomita had met and discussed 3D technology in 2003, but the license inevitably went to electronics manufacturer Sharp.

The jury awarded Tomita a rather large sum of $30.2 million in compensatory damages.