A lawsuit filed by IA Labs against the Japanese giant has been thrown out of court in the US where Labs claimed that Nintendo's Wii Fit Balance Board was infringing on the patent IA Labs claimed from ten years ago. 

Rick Flamm, the Senior VP of Nintendo America said to the Legal & General Counsel, that Nintendo has a passionate tradition of developing innovative products while respecting the intellectual property rights of others. We vigorously defend patent lawsuits when we firmly believe that we have not infringed another party's patent. We refuse to succumb to patent trolls." 

No, that wasn't Mr. Flamm using an internet term, Patent Trolls are basically faceless companies that buy up patents long forgotten and then are simply around to sue people when their patents are brought up. The patent was filed in 2002 and then awarded in 2006 and describes a device as such: A computer interactive isometric exercise system includes an effector, a sensor coupled at a selected location on the effector to measure a force applied by a user to the effector, where the applied force effects a strain on the effector, and control circuitry. The control circuitry includes a processor that receives and processes data corresponding to applied force information measured by the sensor for transference to a host computer."

So despite it clearly being a patent troll, do you think they had a case?

Via [GameInformer]

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