Nintendo should pay compensation of 30.2 million dollars to pay to a former Sony employee, because the company with its Nintendo 3DS infringes on a patent of the man. That the jury in a lawsuit in New York decided. The case was in 2011 brought.
The Japanese Seijiro Tomita, who for a long time, Sony worked, complained to Nintendo in 2011 as the Nintendo 3DS console, use of technology, where he patents. The screen of the console offers 3d view without any glasses needed to experience this. It comes to the American patent with number 7.417.664 which covers “the display of stereoscopic images on the screen with the naked eye, that is to say without the glasses or other device, can be viewed’. The patent was in 2003, filed in 2008 and granted.
During the lawsuit, which last February started, Nintendo that Tomita technology in 2003 demonstrated compared to Nintendo executives, but the company would be demonstrations of different techniques. In the final Nintendo 3DS would not be basic elements of Tomita’s invention was used, argued the lawyers of Nintendo. The jury here was not, however, writes Reuters, and knew the Japanese an indemnity of 30.2 million dollars.
Nintendo in a statement to expect that the decision in the appeal off the table. Also, would the judgment have no impact on the sales of the 3DS or the games of the handheld in the United States.
