So if you develop something in a vacuum, and all of a sudden it becomes part of a very popular (not profitable mind you) system, where does that leave you? Would now have to spend precious resources on searching through patents offices in every country you were going to be introducing your product?
What a minefield for any company doing business in the US, and it's patent system. Just amazing we don't have the courts clogged with patent lawsuits covering everything that has ever been made. I imagine that only electronics, manufacturing related items, and pharmaceuticals have the type of people writing patent law to make sure they make money from someone else (they seem to be the greediest). Oh wait, I forgot about one company, MONSANTO, for suing farmers, for illegally growing it's Genetically Modified crop.
Did the individual incubate the idea and try to spend money on marketing? oh wait it's owned by the company, sorry doesn't belong to you. We paid you to try and come up with something awesome, and the president would look at it and say "we're supposed to be making games, who authorized this? you're fired" and then Konami does the MoCap Boxing the following year, naturally evolving their arcade games from Rescue 911 and something I can't spell :]
I wish I had a video camera when I was a kid to record all the crazy shit we did with ATARI controllers! now THAT was prior art!
Why does the guy in the VIDEO say to contact Mark Myers @ Midway Games? I know he was like an Executive Producer of some big titles. What was he doing at that time? only corporate filings can reveal that.
Does this become the target of C'r'opper NON Inn'er'ovations Gr'ubs'oup claims? Because this video came after their patent filing, notice how they both use micro-controllers, accelerometers, etc, etc. Or they don't care because MIDWAY didn't wander into this area of the industry?
How could the patent office have issued a patent on something so clearly in violation (sic) on the OTHER patent?
Do they get to sue each other instead? and then whoever wins gets to go after SONY + NINTENDO?
EVERY R&D department is now going to require closed circuit 24 hour recording systems in every room, on every table, and portable cameras, because if you don't file, you have to document, and if you don't document you have no proof.
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Oh my god...that mullet is priceless.
I'm in stitches.
Buisness up front, party in the back.
His look screams Jacksonville, FL sometime in the 90's.
The "mullets" have it...
$10 says he still hasn't gotten a haircut since then.
That's a pony tail.
So if you develop something in a vacuum, and all of a sudden it becomes part of a very popular (not profitable mind you) system, where does that leave you? Would now have to spend precious resources on searching through patents offices in every country you were going to be introducing your product?
What a minefield for any company doing business in the US, and it's patent system. Just amazing we don't have the courts clogged with patent lawsuits covering everything that has ever been made. I imagine that only electronics, manufacturing related items, and pharmaceuticals have the type of people writing patent law to make sure they make money from someone else (they seem to be the greediest). Oh wait, I forgot about one company, MONSANTO, for suing farmers, for illegally growing it's Genetically Modified crop.
And MONSANTO won, here's one case for you to think about: http://www.bnd.com/business/story/221785.html
Did the individual incubate the idea and try to spend money on marketing? oh wait it's owned by the company, sorry doesn't belong to you. We paid you to try and come up with something awesome, and the president would look at it and say "we're supposed to be making games, who authorized this? you're fired" and then Konami does the MoCap Boxing the following year, naturally evolving their arcade games from Rescue 911 and something I can't spell :]
I wish I had a video camera when I was a kid to record all the crazy shit we did with ATARI controllers! now THAT was prior art!
Why does the guy in the VIDEO say to contact Mark Myers @ Midway Games? I know he was like an Executive Producer of some big titles. What was he doing at that time? only corporate filings can reveal that.
Does this become the target of C'r'opper NON Inn'er'ovations Gr'ubs'oup claims? Because this video came after their patent filing, notice how they both use micro-controllers, accelerometers, etc, etc. Or they don't care because MIDWAY didn't wander into this area of the industry?
How could the patent office have issued a patent on something so clearly in violation (sic) on the OTHER patent?
Do they get to sue each other instead? and then whoever wins gets to go after SONY + NINTENDO?
EVERY R&D department is now going to require closed circuit 24 hour recording systems in every room, on every table, and portable cameras, because if you don't file, you have to document, and if you don't document you have no proof.