http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/ Engadget Comments for Nintendo finally hit with Wiimote lawsuit http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 8th 2006 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 8th 2006 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 8th 2006 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 8th 2006 11:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 8th 2006 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 9th 2006 12:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Uhh the entire patent isn't "Trigger Operated Electronic Device" Read the friggen link. The patent is very specific and 11 pages long along with 9 detailed images.]]>Dec 9th 2006 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/
I call for Attorney Decimation. Imagine a USA with 1/10th the lawyers it now has. Sure, we'd still have 50,000,000,000 times the number of attorneys per capita than all other countries combined, but MAN! I can almost SMELL the freedom!

LOL. And what was it the pilgrims were fleeing from again?]]>Dec 9th 2006 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 9th 2006 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 9th 2006 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 9th 2006 12:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 9th 2006 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/
http://www.quantel.com/site/en.nsf/html/paintbox_home]]>Dec 9th 2006 12:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.interlinkbrand.com/index.php?id=Mzky

I don't see why they have to get all patent crazy; the Wii-mote is made for a gaming console: a fun, entertaining device (like the stereotypical Mac), and the "Interlink RemotePoint" is made for the PC: fun... entertaining... presentations *zzzzz* (like the stereotypical PC).
]]>Dec 9th 2006 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 9th 2006 1:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 9th 2006 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 9th 2006 1:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/
ALSO, what about the Z-trigger on the N64 remote, anyone think of that being pattented to Nintendo? IMO, the trigger on the WiiMote is the same as that.]]>Dec 9th 2006 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 9th 2006 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.gyration.com? It fits that bill as well!
(They GryoMouse has been a hackers toy, turning the old NES PowerGlove into a PC gaming device!)

As well as many other devices from many other companies. So either lawsuits need to be made on allof them as well... OR this company needs to be told to go SMURF themselves!]]>Dec 9th 2006 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/
Modern civilization and Roman civilization are based on Greek civilization, dumbass. Get your facts straight...]]>Dec 9th 2006 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/
...riiiiight, that's what I thought....
:P]]>Dec 9th 2006 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/

ok now all you N fanboys can have fun and give this post a negative. lol]]>Dec 9th 2006 3:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/
I don't think this lawsuit will hurt Nintendo very much.]]>Dec 9th 2006 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 9th 2006 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/
There's my ten cents, seeing as my country doesn't even have 5 cent pieces anymore.]]>Dec 9th 2006 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/
...riiiiight, that's what I thought....
:P"

Wrong, ass. Roman and modern Western civilization are widely considered among academics to be offshoots of Greek civilization. Modern civilization is NOT an offshoot of, nor is it modeled on, Roman civilization merely because the latter came after the former.

THAT was the point which you totally skipped over...]]>Dec 9th 2006 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 9th 2006 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/
I'm not a patent attorney, but I do have some experience with patents. A notable, and key element of the patent is that "a LED device for emitting an infra-red output signal for transmission to the receiver for operating the computer", However, as I understand it, the Wiimote communicates via bluetooth and uses the IR purely for reference, but NOT for communication with the Wii.

Further the patent seems to imply that the pointing controls and mouse movement are controlled by buttons, not actual physical movement, and that the trigger mechanism is purely used for selecting or clicking. This is another key difference.

The only true similarity seems to be the physical trigger button, which is also present on many other devices, such as the Xbox and Playstation controllers, and various other gaming peripherals (Remember the Super Scope?).

Since the patent was issued to a device containing a trigger element, and its not a patent ON ALL trigger elements.

Lastly, this is a utility patent under class 345/158 (Including orientation sensor e.g., infrared, ultrasonic, remotely controlled) & 345/157 (Cursor mark position control device).

"A utility patent applies to the way something is made, how a device operates, or a process for accomplishing some utilitarian purpose."

An strong argument can be made that the patent and mechanisms describe NO REASONABLE PROCESS OR OPERATION for accomplishing the functions defined in its patent class. It does NOT provide a means to control a cursor mark position. And Nintendo's Wiimote does in a wholly different manner, using gyros and other methods.

These may be key differences that could be used to circumvent (and possibly invalidate) the patent.

There's no reason to settle or pay up to something that has no real claim. Especially when the patent in question was never intended to operate in the manner that the Wiimote does.

So yeah, That's my 15 minute analysis.]]>Dec 9th 2006 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/
- Jasen.]]>Dec 10th 2006 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 9th 2006 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 9th 2006 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 9th 2006 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/
NOBODY F*CKING CARES, YOUR LAWSUIT WILL RUIN THE ENJOYMENT FOR ALL!

I think I'm gonna go patent something crazy and stupid so in 20 years I can sue someone for creating something I thought of. :p]]>Dec 9th 2006 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/nintendo-finally-hit-with-wiimote-lawsuit/Dec 15th 2006 10:46AM