7th July 2018, 2:53 PM
This is very interesting, I never knew about this bizarre legal situation. While it was eventually resolved, Nintendo seems to have been intent on keeping the branding for the hardware the same, possibly to prevent consumer confusion.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)