$30.2 M infringement award against Nintendo halved
In a ruling on Wednesday, U.S. federal judge Jed Rakoff decided that inventor Seijiro Tomita can take half in the $30.2 million in damages awarded to him after Nintendo Co is discovered infringing upon his display technology patent or vanish with Maplestory M Mesos nothing,?Reuters reports.
Rakoff? said the payout?was "'intrinsically excessive' and unsupported through the evidence presented at trial."?According to Reuters, Rakoff said trial evidence showed how the 3DS just isn't profitable and Maplestory Mobile Mesos also a majority of titles for that handheld tend not to make use on the tech featured in Tomita's patent. Tomita has until?Aug. 23. to decide on to either?proceed to a different damages trial or?vanish with $15.one million in damages.