Nintendo Loses Wii Motion Controller Lawsuit

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Thank you Mario! But your patents are in another castle! You have to appeal!

Judge Colin Birss said a Nintendo unit infringed two Philips patents in a ruling today. Nintendo, the world’s largest maker of video games, didn’t violate a third patent pertaining to modeling a body in a virtual environment, Birss said. “The common general knowledge did not include a device combining a physical motion sensor with a camera and the reasons advanced by Nintendo for putting those two sensors together in one unit are unconvincing,” Birss wrote in the decision at the U.K. High Court.
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SO has Phillips actually done anything with their silly patents?

Patents are in general.. really stupid. A patent should not be granted unless a working prototype is demonstrated within 6-months of the application.
 
cyclone3d said:
Patents are in general.. really stupid. A patent should not be granted unless a working prototype is demonstrated within 6-months of the application.
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Agreed. We did get the Supreme Court saying that patenting "abstract" ideas are invalid, so maybe eventually we will reach something like this.
 
cyclone3d said:
SO has Phillips actually done anything with their silly patents?

Patents are in general.. really stupid. A patent should not be granted unless a working prototype is demonstrated within 6-months of the application.
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Many years ago I was under the impression that you needed a prototype. If I had known then you didn't, I would have patented several ideas I had back then. Sadly, many of them are now products, while others I no longer condone the use of. :(
 
cyclone3d said:
SO has Phillips actually done anything with their silly patents?

Patents are in general.. really stupid. A patent should not be granted unless a working prototype is demonstrated within 6-months of the application.
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Agreed, anyone can draw something on a piece of paper and claim it will work. Just to wait for someone years later to actually do it then say the idea was yours.
 
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