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Image: Nintendo Life The Switch Online service has already been expanded with GameCube games this year, and the Virtual Boy library will be making a comeback early next year. Now, a new Nintendo patent filed in April and published this week has ignited rumours about Nintendo DS games potentially returning in the future. As highlighted by Mike Odyssey on social …

Hot on the heels of Strava filing a lawsuit against Garmin that claims the American tech company infringed on several decade-old patents relating to segments and heatmaps, Finnish smartwatch manufacturer Suunto has coincidentally filed a suit against Garmin, claiming that it has also infringed on several patents, first reported by the Garmin rumours website. Suunto is claiming damages and a …

DENVER (BRAIN) — Strava and Suunto are each suing Garmin for patent infringement. Strava is suing the GPS brand in a Colorado court, saying Garmin’s segments and leaderboards features violate a patent licensing agreement the two companies reached in 2015. Suunto, a Finnish company that sells fitness watches and related gear, is suing Garmin in a Texas court. It charges that …

DENVER (BRAIN) — Strava and Suunto are each suing Garmin for patent infringement. Strava is suing the GPS brand in a Colorado court, saying Garmin’s segments and leaderboards features violate a patent licensing agreement the two companies reached in 2015. Suunto, a Finnish company that sells fitness watches and related gear, is suing Garmin in a Texas court. It charges that …

Fitness tech appears to be having a strange spat. Earlier this week, Strava filed a lawsuit alleging that Garmin infringed on its patents for two features related to tracking exercise routes: segments and heatmaps. It’s also claiming that Garmin violated a Master Cooperation Agreement by developing its own heat map feature. The complaint (via The Verge) is seeking a permanent …

Strava is suing its long-time partner Garmin, and is seeking to permanently block the company from selling most of its current fitness and cycling gadget lineup. The lawsuit filed in the US District Court of Colorado on September 30th, first reported by DC Rainmaker, alleges that Garmin violated an agreement between the companies by infringing on Strava’s patents for segments …

AMD’s latest DRAM-focused patent effectively doubles memory bandwidth without faster DRAM silicon, but rather through changing the on-module logic. AMD’s Patent Has Managed To Double Memory Bandwidth Without Advancing The DRAM Silicon Hardware-focused upgrades always have limitations since they come with the ‘overhead’ of upgrading architectures or revamping logic/semiconductor utilization. However, with AMD’s new patent, the firm has effectively managed …

When Xbox landed Palworld as a timed exclusive a couple of years back, it was hard to envision what might come next. Palworld absolutely blew up during its launch period, breaking records for Steam concurrency and showcasing ID@Xbox’s capacity for picking up bangers. Palworld captured the imagination of millions of gamers who grew up playing Pokémon, and wanted to see …

As first noted by Games Fray last week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company were granted a US patent earlier this month involving summoning characters and making them battle. Headlines popped up with similarly vague language as concern spread on social media: That’s a thing in tons of games! Can they do that? Is that even allowed? Well, no, because that’s …

Earlier this week, with the help of a fantastic report from GamesFray, we covered the news of Nintendo securing a new U.S. patent that not only looks like part of their arsenal against Pocketpair’s Palworld, but could also send shockwaves across the wider gaming industry. I’m of course talking about the patent for summoning other characters to fight for you …