Texas firms sues Nintendo, and wins! Nintendo has vowed to fight a court order demanding it pay $21m (£10.7m/€13.5m) to a US gaming company for patent infringements associated with controllers for the Wii and GameCube.… ...full story at the register (uk)
from the register (uk) on Fri, May 16 2008
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