Legal issues
Interlink Electronics filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Nintendo over the pointing functionalities of the Wii Remote, claiming “loss of reasonable royalties, reduced sales and/or lost profits as a result of the infringing activities” of Nintendo.Anascape Ltd, a Texas-based firm, also filed a lawsuit against Nintendo for patent infringements.Law firm Green Welling LLP filed a class action lawsuit against Nintendo for its “defective wrist straps”.A Texas-based company called Lonestar Inventions has also sued Nintendo, claiming that the company copied one of Lonestar’s patented capacitor designs and used it in the Wii console.