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Another Company Takes Nintendo To Court
IA Labs, a Maryland-based company also known as Powergrid Fitness, is the latest to sue Nintendo for alleged patent infringement. The company claims that basically any tech used in the Wii and its attending peripherals violates two of IA's patents.
According to Gamasutra, IA Labs filed the lawsuit on April 2, and it says that Nintendo violated IA Labs' patents for a "computer interactive isometric exercise system and method for operatively interconnecting the exercise system to a computer system for use as a peripheral," as well as a "force measurement system for an isometric exercise device." Powergrid says that it currently uses the tech in several of its devices, and that it has email correspondence with Nintendo from 2007-08 when it made Nintendo aware of the situation and wanted to enter into a licensing agreement. A couple of the products have even won awards at CES.
Recently, Nintendo dodged a bullet when it won an appeal on a patent case over its controllers.
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