View Full Version : Nintendo getting sued over controller patent
jajaja
12-08-2006, 02:51 PM
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4365&Itemid=2
I really dont know what to say. On one hand i hate patents like this that stops other people to make something simular. On the other hand i can understand that the developers wants to have their invention of their own. But i understand this pantent to be pretty broad, which imo fucking sux :\
Celestial Avenger
12-08-2006, 02:54 PM
There are too many patent trolls. I am unsure if such is the case, but there's been too many stupid lawsuits brought up lately by patent trolls.
Wasn't there a lawsuit from some idiot company that supposedly had the patent for 3D in games?
jajaja
12-08-2006, 02:55 PM
Wasn't there a lawsuit from some idiot company that supposedly had the patent for 3D in games?
Exactly stuff like this that pisses me off. Patents like this needs to be removed ASAP!
chicnstu
12-08-2006, 02:57 PM
So theirs moves based on touch, Nintendo's is actual movement.
Theirs has a trigger and Nintendo's has a trigger so they are getting sued?
I must be reading this wrong because that makes no sense.
s1lence
12-08-2006, 03:43 PM
Its always from some RANDOM company too. So they are saying they have a patent on a Trigger feature? I suppose this would effect all trigger type functions that are used in various electronic devices, as a trigger is nothing more then a type of switch. But of course the Wii is in the news so they bring it up against them, big surprise. Gotta love patent trolls.
Ponyone
12-08-2006, 03:46 PM
I'm gonna build a business just around patents yet never produce the items. Then I'm gonna sit back and wait for people to do it for me and I'll sue.
Celestial Avenger
12-08-2006, 03:53 PM
I'm gonna build a business just around patents yet never produce the items. Then I'm gonna sit back and wait for people to do it for me and I'll sue.
Many companies already do this.
AlphaNerd01
12-08-2006, 03:53 PM
Guy's lets be honest. The Wiimote is obviously a rip-off of the Sega Genesis Activator controller. We were all thinking it, and I think it's about time someone said it. Look for yourselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMW9HSrljhA
No, but seriously, a big LOL at the patent lawsuit. I don't think it'll matter in the end.
jajaja
12-08-2006, 04:14 PM
Guy's lets be honest. The Wiimote is obviously a rip-off of the Sega Genesis Activator controller. We were all thinking it, and I think it's about time someone said it. Look for yourselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMW9HSrljhA
No, but seriously, a big LOL at the patent lawsuit. I don't think it'll matter in the end.
Haha i havnt seen that one before :) Now i have another thing to use when people say that Sony are stealing, what about Nintendo? ;)
Psyleid
12-08-2006, 10:40 PM
You mean like Patenting the Human genome? Or patenting bacteria?
Andred
12-09-2006, 12:33 AM
Screw patenting all trigger-activated electronic devices.... why not patent ALL electronic devices?! The patent and suit are both ridiculous. This company needs to be shut down and it's board members should walk the plank (just off the coast. we don't need to kill them). Stuff like this wastes my money as a tax payer and I don't appreciate it.
Ponyone
12-09-2006, 04:03 AM
Many companies already do this.
then I'll sue.
Nintendo should counter sue for them infringing on that exact patent then because the Zapper Light Guns been around for 20 years!!!
Predatorxs
12-09-2006, 07:51 PM
Nintendo should counter sue for them infringing on that exact patent then because the Zapper Light Guns been around for 20 years!!!
Plus the N64 has a trigger as well.. and like ya said the zapper guns were there, nintendo should counter sue and send there asses to video game hell LOL
Steve W
12-09-2006, 08:22 PM
Years back, Apple got sued by a company claiming that Apple's ColorSync software (calibration software for monitors and printer output) infringed on one of their copyrights. Eventually, it was discovered that the company didn't even have any copyrights that were anywhere close to what Apple was doing. The whole thing was a scam to get their company's name in the press.