Nintendo Beats the Game, Wins Patent Suit Over Game Boy Controls

On Friday, July 17, Nintendo Co. Ltd. emerged victorious in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Quintal Research Group Inc.  The suit alleged that Nintendo’s handheld gaming systems, such as Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo DSi, infringed a patent owned by Quintal.  However, California federal judge Saundra Armstrong disagreed, awarding judgment to Nintendo.

In 2008, Quintal secured a patent for a “computerized information retrieval system.”  As the patent proposes, this system is described as

“having a generally rectangular shape, with a display screen

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