Forum - View topicNEWS: Nintendo, Philips End Motion-Sensing Patent Dispute
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mdo7
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I just heard about this from IGN a few hours later. Nice to see that the dispute has ended.
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endallchaos
 Posts: 213 Location: Sin City |
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I agree, Waffles hold honey better than pancakes.
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NateSelwyn25
 Posts: 141 Location: Seattle |
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I wonder if Philips really had a case or not. It comes off, to me at least, as the last move by a desperate company.
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Emerje
 Posts: 7343 Location: Maine |
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Sharing patents, eh? I smell a CD-i 2 in our future.
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leafy sea dragon
 Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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Nintendo gets hit with this sort of lawsuit all the time due to its nature as a company that creates weird stuff constantly. If some other company feels something Nintendo produced is remotely similar (especially if Nintendo's thing proves popular, and no pun intended), they could try to sue and hopefully either get some money out of it or get some patent ownership. It's not always desperate--sometimes, it's from patent-sitters whose money is earned entirely through winning lawsuits (such as when an Australian company that simply owns patents without making anything sued Nintendo over the Wii's wireless adapter), and sometimes, it's petty bullying mainly for intimidation (such as Universal Studios getting on Nintendo's case for using the word "Kong"). I forget where I read it, but Nintendo and Apple are the two technology companies that are the targets of the most lawsuits per year. |
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