
Hillcrest has also filed a similar patent infringement suit in the U.S. District Court in Maryland. Hillcrest has offered motion-detecting technology since 2001, allowing users to use a handheld device to interact with digital media displayed on a television screen, and says that they have licensed its technology to leading consumer electronics companies, including Eastman Kodak. The Wii features a handheld motion-sensing controller that allows users to direct play on a television screen, by swinging it like a golf club or a baseball bat. Nintendo said that although it respects the patents of other companies, it did not infringe Hillcrest’s patents and will “vigorously defend” its position. Danie Pienaar Candidate Attorney danie-p@adamsadams.co.za James Davies Partner james-d@adamsadams.co.za

11/11/2008 \| Posted in: Intellectual Property and Patents

Featured news Africa seeks common laws to fight counterfeits
Written by George Omondi

April 24, 2009: Industrial property rights experts are campaigning for the harmonisation of the anti-counterfeiting laws across Africa.

They blame the failure to tackle the menace, which they say has stifled the continent's industrial growth, on the disjointed legal regime.
At a two-day pan African intellectual property and anti-counterfeiting forum that opened in Nairobi yesterday, delegates from different countries said the counterfeiters were exploiting the vacuum created by lack of clear legal framework at national levels and absence of a common regional policy on counterfeiting to infiltrate the local economies.

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