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p2pnet news | Games:- Pay Anascape $21 million, Nintendo has been ordered.
“A jury at the Texas Eastern District Court found that Nintendo had infringed on patents with production of its Wii Classic, WaveBird and Gamecube controllers,” says SPOnG.
Nintendo spokesman Charlie Scibetta says the company will appeal and that he expects the court to reduce the amount ’significantly’.
However, it’s equally significant [read telling] that he didn’t say Nintendo, “hopes to see the suit overturned entirely”.
Bill and the Boyz were accused of the same thing but, “an out-of-court settlement was reached before the start of the Nintendo trial,” says gamezine.
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May 15th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Damn seems like these Video game maufactures just can’t develop their own creative technologies
May 15th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
most patents cases are for profit. company x applies for 100 different patients to do with analog sticks some one will violate one of your patients.
dose some one not have a patent for clickable buttons in web-browsers?
May 15th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
” most patents cases are for profit. company x applies for 100 different patients to do with analog sticks some one will violate one of your patients. ”
Because everyone knows large corporations never steal ideas from smaller
companies knowing that they can out finance the smaller companies in court
most of the time. Corporations are always honest and good.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
The whole idea on patents and copyrights in the US, as well as many other countries, who have decided to follow US’ lead, is starting to get ridiculous.
It’s one thing thing to create an idea, and another to just copyright ideas that don’t manifest. And when it comes to products from overseas, it’s all down to which came first, the chicken or then egg.
Sure there a very few ideas that are ultimately original, many ideas have some similarity with other people’s ideas. It does not always mean that the idea was willfully copied, and the makers was trying to cheat someone out of licensing fees.
When you work with an international company, you always run into problems of people trying to register your company’s name and ideas in a foreign country, to try to extort money from the company. And in some cases, I have known rival companies trying to register products and company brands, so they can’t be used in the country that you are trying to set up in.
If the patent in question, actually exists, and not just an idea on paper, then yes, Nintendo and MS should be held responsible, but if it isn’t, and the company has not shown an effort or an interest to created the product in the patent, then it really starts to sound like a case of patent trolls.
There are literally millions of patents in the US that are useless or just “ideas”(for example, the famous gun helmet- they proved that it would not only make you go deaf, but knock you out cold every time you shoot the thing!), and many people are getting sued based on them.
Hey, I know. I’ll get a patent for controlling an object without a stick or buttons! Then all I would need to do is sit back and wait for someone to actually get it to work, market it, sell millions of the product, and sue them!
But all joking aside, just because a big company is involved, does not automatically mean that they are evil, or underhanded, and just because the company is from another country does not mean that it’s trying to cheat or take over your country. Remember, the “evil” foreign run companies that make and sell cars, games, electronics, etc… are often staffed and run by people in your own country (even the evil Big 4).
Just my two cents.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Yep, patents are ridiculously generic. Anyway, how can you patent an idea? ideas, thoughts, and knowledge can’t be suppressed. It’s mostly companies with big portfolios trying to intimidate and eradicate competition. Patents and copyrights should be entirely abolished; something which I think will come to pass when we finally realise how ludicrous they are.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Here is a scenario that exemplifies the injustice of patents:
Person A in country A conceives an idea. At the very same time Person B in country B conceives the very same idea. Person A has no concept of patents, but proceeds with developing his idea. Person B registers his idea as a patent, and files lawsuit against Person A. Is Person B’s idea valid and Person A’s isn’t? Can Person B really have a monopoly on an idea even if people all around the world may have or have had the same idea ?
If you take just a moment to think about it, you realise how silly the whole business is.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:15 am
these patents are stupid, only in the US can you create a vague patent and sue another company for actually making the product.
I would like to know if this company actually ever made a game controller or if the analog stick was even going to be for a game controller.
If I was Nintendo I would appeal this and tie the company up in court for the next 5 years.