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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Hillcrest files patent suit against Nintendo

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    Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:54pm EDT

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    Nintendo Co's Wii game console is displayed at an electronic shop in Tokyo's Akihabara district January 24, 2008. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillcrest Laboratories asked a trade panel to determine if Nintendo Co (7974.OS) and its U.S. subsidiary have infringed four patents to make its top-selling Wii game, according to a filing on Wednesday and a Hillcrest statement.

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    The technology company made the request in a filing to the International Trade Commission, which has the power to bar products from the United States if they are made with infringed technology.

    The company, which is based in Rockville, Maryland, filed a similar lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Maryland.

    Hillcrest created motion-detecting technology that lets users select items on a television screen by waving a handheld device.

    "Leading consumer electronics companies, not all of whom have been disclosed publicly, have already licensed Hillcrest's technology for use in their products," Hillcrest said in a statement.

    "While Hillcrest Labs has a great deal of respect for Nintendo and the Wii, Hillcrest Labs believes that Nintendo is in clear violation of its patents and has taken this action to protect its intellectual property rights," it added.

    (Reporting by Diane Bartz and Kenneth Li; Editing by Maureen Bavdek)
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