Nintendo Wins Early Victory In Patent Suit

According to a Reuters report, the US International Trade Commission has ruled in favour of Nintendo Co. in a patent infringement claim brought by Motiva LLC. In a notice issued by Judge Robert K. Rogers, Jr. following judgement, the judge found that Nintendo's Wii does not infringe two Motiva patents and that there was no industry in the U.S. which exploited the patents in question.

The decision is subject to review by the six-member commission in Washington, D.C. and a final decision will be made by March, 2012.

Motiva claimed that Nintendo's Wii system infringed on its patents, explaining that it holds a patent for a "human movement measurement system" that uses wireless hand-held or body-worn controllers to track a user's position in three-dimensional space.