Nintendo of America Inc.’s administrative challenge to a patent related to motion sensing technology was partially revived by a federal appeals court Dec. 27, but it likely won’t knock out a $10.1 million jury verdict against the video game maker.
The decision is the latest chapter in the patent dispute between Nintendo and iLife Technologies Inc. In August, a Texas jury found several of Nintendo’s products infringed a claim in the patent and awarded iLife a lump-sum royalty for the technology.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board, part of the Patent and Trademark Office, had ruled against Nintendo in its ...