In fact, the sense of the Nintendo Wii and Wii U have been involved in the patent lawsuit since 2013. American technology company iLife sued the company's six patents for motion control of the Nintendo Wii and Wii U, The amount of compensation it demanded was as high as 144 million U.S. dollars, claiming a compensation of 4 U.S. dollars for each of the 36 million Wii units sold prior to the lawsuit, and also requiring Nintendo to stop using the technology.
In August 2017, the Texas federal court in the United States announced the plaintiffs' victory and Nintendo's defendant, Nintendo, had to compensate the plaintiff. Nintendo's lawyer claimed that the patent information of the plaintiffs' lacks a sufficient written description ', but the court dismissed the defense.
Subsequently, Nintendo immediately appealed and continued to innovate its patent protest, but the U.S. Court of Appeal recently announced that the original verdict, Nintendo still failed to pay the compensation for the failure of the appeal, but Nintendo still has the opportunity to appeal.
It is reported that in 2017 the Texas court ruled Nintendo lost the case, there is foreign media exposure, the name is 'iLife Technologies' is actually a 'patent troll' (patent troll) company, since its establishment focused on patent litigation business, and the United States local The law allows such companies to take advantage.