Nokia, Nintendo and Sony struck in wireless patent spat
Tue, Feb 24th, 2009
Friday the 13th is always a dodgy day - for the paranoid at least. And for Sony, Nintendo and Nokia, it seems - it was the day that a US firm chose to file a patent violation lawsuit claiming all three of them have trampled over wireless data transfer technology it owns.
Wall Wireless LLC, a Texas-based firm, is attempting to sue the trio for allegedly infringing upon its patent – number 6,640,086, granted in the US in 2003 – entitled “Method and Apparatus for Creating and Distributing Real-Time Interactive Media Content Through Wireless Communication Networks and the Internet”.
Read the whole story on The Register
