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Posted By Gabriel B. about 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Who's not getting sued? "IT'S A-ME!"
Nintendo can rest easy tonight on the legal front. Judge David Cercone, a Pittsburgh-based U.S. district judge, threw out a case Copper Innovations Group brought against the popular video game company. The case, which was originally filed in 2007, was over Copper Innovations Group’s claim that the Nintendo Wii and its controllers infringed on a patent Copper had for a motion-controller based system. After reviewing the case, Cercone believed that there was no need for the case to go to trial and threw it out.
In response to the news Richard Medway said, “Nintendo has a long history of developing innovative products while respecting the intellectual property rights of others. We also vigorously defend patent lawsuits when we firmly believe that we have not infringed another party’s patent, despite the risks that this policy entails. I would like to express our sincere appreciation for the tireless efforts of our legal team.”
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Source: Game Informer
I’m sorry but I take a lot of issue with patent freakouts because quite frankly, you can’t go ten feet now-a-days without someone trying to sue you, rightfully or (95% of the time) with no actual ground to stand on.
It’s sickening just how bad it’s gotten to be honest. But that’s a personal beef.
On a more related note – They must have no idea what kind of nightmare they’d be walking into for laying hands on Nintendo. Ya see, for most of the current adults around 20-30, Nintendo holds a special place in our childhood. A very special place. Some might even call it our ‘happy place’. Like an loving third parent, it raised our asses to be who we are today.
You don’t mess with the ‘happy place’. It inspires dark feelings in the hearts of man when someone goes after a loved one, inanimate or otherwise. It makes them do…terrible things. Things like…TP a house or two, leave skunks in someone’s mailbox, or worse. ^_^ Not that I would ever *cough* do something like that.
‘;..;’
Amen.
Just think about how much money Nintendo had to waste paying Lawyers for a 5 year court battle.
The whole patent system is wierd.
See me I made some drawing, now all you ppl have to pay me money to use it.
In the old days, you actual hade to show a machine doing want you where trying to get a patent on.
And you hade to actual invent something, not just put 2 old things together, that you did not invent and caim ownership of the new thing.
Or if it’s not that it’s usually, “hey I bought the right to this patent but then just sat on it in hopes that someone would infringe upon it later”. My dad works as an expert witness in the legal system and I can’t tell you how many times he’s gotten cases like that – where the prosecuting side was a business that actively bought patents and then did nothing with them in hopes they could sue someone later.
They should have played this when the announcement was made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW7NnzlZ8N4
Don’t **** with Nintendo.
This. Nintendo has the balls to admit when they’ve screwed up (see: Wii wrist straps breaking, the 3DS’s sales), but they’re not gonna let some frivolous lawsuit stop them from making their money-printing machines.