http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/ Engadget Comments for Company sues Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo over joystick patent 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/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/
"I'd like to patent a vertical barrier which is hinged on one side allowing passage between two divided spaces. A secure closing mechanism would allow for said vertical barrier to remain closed and/or secured closed. I would like to call this vertical barrier a 'door'." :rolleyes:]]>Jan 10th 2007 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/Jan 11th 2007 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/Jan 10th 2007 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/Jan 10th 2007 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/

I hate patent issues like this . . . money grabbing to the effect of stiffling progress. ]]>Jan 10th 2007 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/Jan 10th 2007 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/
That has nothing to do with this. The DualShocka and SIXAXIS are gamepads that use analog stick, pressure-sensitive button, directional pad, and trigger interfaces.]]>Jan 10th 2007 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/
it's just a waste of everyone's time and when they do win, the consumer ends up getting screwed as the costs get passed on to them in some way, shape or form.

this suit is especially silly if you think about the fact that these companies were making these "joysticks" before 1998. ]]>Jan 10th 2007 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/
And what has this no-namer done with their intellectual property, aside from gouging people that encroach on their "original ideas"?]]>Jan 10th 2007 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/Jan 10th 2007 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/Jan 10th 2007 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/
These kind of patents are junk. ]]>Jan 10th 2007 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/
I guess companies do this to try and get free publicity from sites such as this.]]>Jan 10th 2007 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/Jan 10th 2007 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/Jan 10th 2007 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/
Probably not actually analog, in that it probably didn't register degree of movement, just movement. I don't recall the CoCo having a truly analog joystick available for it.

The Atari 5200, however, did - (in)famously. Prior art wouldn't be very difficult to demonstrate in this case.
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(And by the way, I'm from and currently live in Texas.)]]>Jan 10th 2007 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/
That is great, too bad none of Nintendo's "analog" sticks are actually analog (ok, I have seen one, but it was a 3rd party N64 arcade pad). The input is a digital representation of an analog location that is sent to a controller that references from an arbitrary center point. Think stick glued to mouse ball. I think the others are similar. but i have not been able to dismantle the mechanics of a DuleShock, at least not without risk of damage.]]>Jan 11th 2007 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/Jan 11th 2007 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64 the N64 came out (with analog controllers) in 1996. So if the patent is about analog controllers then they will lose.]]>Jan 11th 2007 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/Jan 11th 2007 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/
The voltage has nothing to do with how quickly it drains a battery. The rate at which something drains a battery is based on the current it draws. A 1.5 Volt battery can be drained in seconds or months depending on the current draw and yet it's still always 1.5 Volts, low voltage.]]>Jan 11th 2007 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/Jan 11th 2007 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/
Another point is at least Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft all encode this signal with all other button presses. There is no one signal revealing position. Just a datastream that must be decoded.]]>Jan 11th 2007 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/company-sues-sony-microsoft-and-nintendo-over-joystick-patent/Jun 18th 2007 7:42PM