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A jury verdict recently entered into a patent infringement case in the Northern District of Texas found that Japanese gaming giant Nintendo infringed upon a patent asserted by Texas-based medical tech firm iLife Technologies Inc. In the verdict, the jury agreed that iLife proved that it was owed $10.1 million in a lump sum royalty for the sales of a series of games for the Wii U console. The jury also found that Nintendo didn’t prove invalidity of the asserted patent. The jury found that sales of Nintendo’s Wii U games including Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Club Sports and Mario Kart 8, infringed upon claim 1 of U.S. Patent No. 6864796.

The predictions on the success of Nintendo’s (TYO:7974) newest game platform, the Nintendo Switch, have varied over the last six months. According to interactive media and digital gaming research firm SuperData Research, Nintendo took a big hit on console sales of Wii U in 2012 when it sold only 15 million copies and reaped criticism from investors. Despite that, Takashi Mochizuki, a Wall Street Journal technology reporter stationed in Tokyo, tweeted in October that Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima expected two million units to be shipped within the first month of Nintendo Switch’s release in March 2017.