Nintendo plans to appeal the decision.

On August 31, a Dallas jury awarded iLife Technologies a $10 million victory in their patent lawsuit against Nintendo. The suit, first brought forth in 2013, alleged that Nintendo used their motion sensing technology in the Wii remote.

iLife’s tech was supposedly designed and patented to detect fallen elderly patients and monitor infants for SIDS. Around the same time as the Nintendo suit, they also sued Fitbit and Under Armour, among others, though possibly those companies settled out of court. iLife sought $144 million in damages against Nintendo, along with an injunction against Nintendo’s use of the technology.

Nintendo alleges that they didn’t infringe on iLife’s patent, and that the patent was written incorrectly and therefore invalid. Via Rolling Stone, Nintendo plans on appealing the decision.

Source: Rolling Stone, Engadget

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