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Nintendo have today been sued, yet again, by Hillcrest Laboratories, who claim Nintendo is using their motion-control inventions.

Hillcrest are seeking to block all imports of the Nintendo Wii and WiiMotes. They have filed a complaint today with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington along with a civil suit in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland.

"While Hillcrest Labs has a great deal of respect for Nintendo and the Wii, Hillcrest Labs believes that Nintendo is in clear violation of its patents and has taken this action to protect its intellectual property rights,'' the company said in a statement.

Hillcrest has three patents of motion control technology they have accused Nintendo of stealing.

According to Bloomberg this will take 15months to investigate for officials.

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http://kotaku.com/5039638/nintendo-gets-sued-over-wii

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RenegadeKL
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Why dont they lay off hard working companies like Ninty and get back to realities of life... My conclusion: Its gonna be EPIC FAIL case!
25/08/2008
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liam_rocks
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holy shyte some people are just hopeless
24/08/2008
perth
XxmadmanxX
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OMG im sick of these people
24/08/2008
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zewiiman
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.....
what people will do for money.....
24/08/2008
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in your atic eating your muffins
1337master
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eventually nintendo will lose and go downhill if people keep suing them.
24/08/2008
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Tsunamo
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lol how many times will this happen.
23/08/2008
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id tell you but then id have to kill you
Guyver
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One company makes big dollars then all the smaller companies tries to cash in. If the Wii failed I'm sure there would be no lay suites happening. Rather than leach of other companies success why don't these companies divert their energy into creating new and innovative products to keep the market fresh and interesting.

..guess that would too hard for them.
23/08/2008
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Sunny Melbourne :p
malaka
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nintendo will squish em like a bug!

but srsly this is stupid
23/08/2008
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sjt333
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gizmodo.com/

awesomely vague patent they have
23/08/2008
Altered Beast
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Weasle
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Whats that people need to get a life instead of saying all of this bullcrap about nitendo compying them. Whats that now nintendo has declared that everyone who does that is a complete jackA** Wow learn new things everyday
22/08/2008
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IceManPJN
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Kamon62 said: what is it now? 4 times they've been sued?



You mean just for the Wiimote or altogether? If it's altogether, it's probably their 400th lawsuit, give or take a few dozen. They've been getting sued for decades.

jofra01 said: Hillcrest has three patents of motion control technology they have accused Nintendo of stealing.



Unless Nintendo has seen either their patents or their physical technologies, it wouldn't be "stealing". Stealing is different from something like copyright infringement or patent infringement, whereby you can accidentally end up with something you've independently created yourself that someone else has also already created. For example, you and I can independently start doodling a new concept for a video game character, and both can end up looking remarkably similar, but it doesn't mean that either of us "stole" it from the other.

I checked the original source on Bloomberg.com, and it uses neither "steal" nor "stole" anywhere in the article, so neither of these would seem to be the appropriate word here. Hillcrest does not seem to have accused Nintendo of stealing anything, but rather simply infringing on patents.
21/08/2008
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BlakKnight said: yet another company never heard of suing Nintendo because they can't make their own money



exactly.
They need to stop scabbing off nintendo because of their crapness
21/08/2008
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Azza123
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Lol. Just Lol.
21/08/2008
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''Blades Will Bleed''
Kamon62
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what is it now? 4 times they've been sued? They should put a patent on nintendo all-together. Everyone is trying to rip off them.
21/08/2008
Sonic The Hedgehog 3
Claiming ownership over Malaka's conscience since 30/8/08!
jakliu100
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ugh this is america for you...
21/08/2008
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Manchester, UK
sjt333
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now if we lived in bizzaro world and the wii never became popular and PS3 was extremely popular with the SIXAXIS this company would be suing them
21/08/2008
Altered Beast
Forecast for tomorrow; a few sprinkles of genius with a chance of doom!
jofra01
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BlakKnight said: yet another company never heard of suing Nintendo because they can't make their own money



Of course, wouldn't have it any other way.
21/08/2008
Captain Rainbow
Elimbah, Queensland.
BlakKnight
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yet another company never heard of suing Nintendo because they can't make their own money
21/08/2008
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boxhunter
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LOL more and more money going to LAW SUITS!
21/08/2008
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jofra01
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Poor Nintendo.
21/08/2008
Captain Rainbow
Elimbah, Queensland.
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