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Update: The judge presiding over the lawsuit has dismissed the case against both Nintendo and Microsoft outright, Slashdot has the long and short of it.
Original: The trial for a patent infringement lawsuit filed against Nintendo and Microsoft will start in Tyler, TX on Tuesday March 17th.
Fenner Investments LTD. filed the claim Jan. 5, 2007, naming Nintendo of America Inc., Nintendo Col. LTD. and Microsoft Corp. in the lawsuit and accusing the companies of infringing on a patent used in several video games.
On Oct. 2, 2001, Fenner, based in Richardson, was assigned a patent for its "low-voltage joystick port interface."
According to the lawsuit, Nintendo infringed upon the patent by failing to gain authorization "to provide their GameCube and Wii products with structures and practice methods covered in the patent."
It goes on to claim that Microsoft infringed the patent by failing to obtain authorization for "providing the Xbox and Xbox 360 products that incorporate structures and practice methods covered by the patent."
Both Nintendo and Microsoft have filed answers to the lawsuit, "denying the patent infringement allegations and counterclaiming for declaratory judgments of non-infringement and invalidity."
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