Avoiding a $10 Million Judgment: Texas District Court Rules Nintendo Did Not Infringe on iLife Patent

By Benjamin Gilman, Michigan 3L   In 2013, iLife Technologies Inc. (“iLife”) sued Nintendo of America, Inc. (“Nintendo”) claiming that Nintendo’s Wii gaming console infringed on iLife’s U.S. Patent No. 6,864,796 (“Claim 1”). Claim 1 is described as a system for evaluating body movement relative to an environment. The patent includes the use of a sensor and a processor to locate the dynamic and static accelerative phenomena of the body. Similarly, the Nintendo Wii uses motion