Sony and Nintendo pegged with lawsuit from vague controller patent

Copper Innovations Group has a bone to pick with Sony and Nintendo, and has filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania seeking after some monies and an injunction against further infringement. The patent in question? Copper has a patent dating back to 1996 that "covers a method for connecting devices to a system and sorting their inputs by means of hardware identification numbers tied to each transmission." Sounds like it would cover just about any sort of controller ever, but the lawsuit apparently is referring to Bluetooth -- Microsoft, which uses a proprietary wireless standard for the 360, isn't being named in the suit. No official word from Sony or Nintendo yet, but Sony lawyers could be heard crying softly into a pillow somewhere.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2008 6:39PM]

I've now successfully patented the act of breathing to sustain life and thereby enabling a person to work for money.

Therefore, either refrain from infringing my patent or pay me 10% of your wages as royalties for the use of my patent.

Please make all payments to my paypal account: [e-mail]

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2008 11:13PM]

Oh goody another lame patent by some lurking trolls that come out of the woodwork to try to take millions of dollars from real companies.