Tengen developed its Rabbit program to unlock the NES and gain access to NES owners outside Nintendo's strict licensing conditions.

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"Tengen developed its Rabbit program to unlock the NES and gain access to NES owners outside Nintendo’s strict licensing conditions."

The Federal Circuit states that Atari's Rabbit program generated the signals needed to unlock the NES and gave Atari access to NES owners without Nintendo's strict licensing conditions.

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Source title Atari Games Corp. and Tengen, Inc., Plaintiffs-appellants, v. Nintendo of America Inc. and Nintendo Co., Ltd., Defendants-appellees, 975 F.2d 832 (Fed. Cir. 1992)

Source authors U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Source year 1992

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