EFF Attacks Nintendo Over GB Patents
EFF Attacks Nintendo Over GB Patents
High in their top ten hit list of patents is Nintendo's GameBoy emulation patent. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, aim to challenge this patent stating that it is detrimental to the wellbeing of public domain.
EFF attorney Jason Schultz commented that "a bunch of small game companies are writing these emulators, and they're really no threat to Nintendo. But Nintendo is being a big bully."
This basically means that it is their opinion that Nintendo are making it difficult for other companies to legally emulate GameBoy games and their website offers the opinion that Nintendo's patent "threatens reverse engineering of videogames to promote interoperability and emulation by hobbyists and entrepreneurs...".
Harsh accusations indeed, but in fairness to Nintendo, Game Boy and its hardware is their sole property and should they want to prevent others from reverse engineering 20+ year old technology then that's their perogative. Do the EFF have a chance in court against Nintendo?
We'll keep your updated as it happens.
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