SEGA aims lawsuit at Professor Layton developer Level-5, claims patent infringements
Lydia Sung - Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:44am (PST)
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Looks to stop sale of Inazuma Eleven games, and seeking $11 million
Level-5's soccer RPG Inazuma Eleven does pretty well for itself, but SEGA isnt having any of it. Now, the major Japanese publisher is suing Level-5, claiming that the Inazuma series violates two of SEGA's patents.
SEGA is seeking $11 million from Level-5, as well as ceasing sales of eight Inazuma Eleven games. The company believes that the way the characters are controlled through the DS touchscreen violate their patents. Details regarding the patent and exactly how the games' controls infringe upon it weren't divulged.
Since the eight Inazuma titles have sold over three million units, SEGA also states that Level-5 owes more than 900 million yen in royalties (that's roughly $11 million USD). Not the biggest number we see tossed around in corporate lawsuits, but it's certainly nothing to sneeze at.
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I mean every game now is similar control wise and it would be funny if sega won the latter part of the suit :]
Just imagine everytime you confirm a choice with X in ps3 system game would be infringing on another game.
We all doubt it's that bad but now I'm so curious....
What petty nonsense. I hope this case doesn't go anywhere and gets thrown out of court.
heres a link seems like this a grudge over the dreamcast failing
http://www.p4rgaming.com/?p=747
Yeah major butthurt coming from Sega.
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