Nintendo Ordered To Pay $21 Million For Infringing Game Controller Patents

On May 14 Nintendo of America, Inc. was ordered to pay Anascape, Ltd. $21 million for infringement of Anascape’s patents in designing its Wii Classic, WaveBird and Gamecube controllers. Anascape also sued Microsoft for infringement.  Anascape and Microsoft, however, settled On May 1st just prior to the start of the trial against Nintendo. Anascape alleged that the console…