Nintendo Wins Patent Case Against Handhelds

Nintendo have won a lawsuit that suggested that various Nintendo portable consoles infringed a patent.

The case focused on eight of Nintendo's handhelds - including Nintendo 3DS, DSi, DS and Game Boy Advance, claiming that these popular consoles had infringed on a patent asserted by the Quintal Research Group - a company run by the named inventor of the asserted patent, who is also a patent lawyer. The case was dismissed by Judge Armstrong. 

"The result in this case continues to prove that Nintendo will vigorously defend its innovations against patent lawsuits and will not pay to settle cases simply to avoid litigation," said Devon Pritchard, Nintendo of America's General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Business Affairs.