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Nintendo Faces Patent Lawsuit, Apparently Over DS Touch Screen

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Nintendo, which recently lost a $21 million patent case to Anascape, is currently litigating another federal patent lawsuit filed by an Illinois man.

In his complaint, John R. Martin alleges that he patented touch screen and pointing device gaming technology in August, 2005. The original Nintendo DS launched in November, 2004 in the United States. Martin's patent application describes his creation as:

"An electronic game device system [which] is switchable between an amusement mode and a gaming or gambling mode and is useful for vehicles such as airplanes or boats which move geographically from jurisdictions where gambling is legal to jurisdictions where it is not...

An improved method of operating a touch screen on a CRT or ICD computer screen uses finger release as input registering... Mounting arrangements for mounting computer screens or monitors are also disclosed..."
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BRACHATTACK - 529 days 13 hours ago
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Damn, mind you, i'm sure Nintendo can survive if they are sued, its not like they're not making enough money as it is.
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eagle21 - 529 days 10 hours ago
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2 - Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Apple, Dell etc. etc... stay in court.....
That's what corporate lawyers are for. More money more problems. :)
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Wildarmsjecht - 529 days 10 hours ago
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The whole patent thing is getting ridiculous. I can understand its merits and uses, but it seems like any Joe Schmoe can patent something, not use it for 50 years, and assume no one can think of the idea or a better application for it.

Screw you guys. Breathing apparatus for Mars? Patented. By me. Try and get there now.
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Adriana Lima - 529 days 10 hours ago
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3.1 - scuba tank
ftw
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qface64 - 529 days 10 hours ago
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geez thats the thing i hate now a days you get sued over everything
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Hellangelzx - 529 days 9 hours ago
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6 - Wait, is the man retarded?
He patented his touch screen thing a year after nintendo released their Ds.

Okay, am I reading this article wrong...or what?
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Enigma_2099 - 529 days 9 hours ago
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7 - So they invent something, patent it... then sit on it until someone else uses the idea... so they can sue?
That's just plain obnoxious...
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Voiceofreason - 529 days 8 hours ago
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Some times those people do have merit to sue though. I dont see it in this case though. Sometimes a person has a really great idea, they just do not have the backing to make it possible. Let's say you invent a car powered by water,does Ford have the right to take that very idea and use it in their own vehicles making them millions while you get nothing? Simply because they didnt want to give you anything for it when you tried to sale it to them? The Immersion lawsuit is a great example of this. It was presented to the major console makers and they all passed, copied the idea exactly and then putting it in their consoles.
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fredy - 528 days 16 hours ago
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7.2 - well in America..thats called business
that's why we have so many lawyers...
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DX F3NIX - 529 days 5 hours ago
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down goes nintendo
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faustomrtnz - 529 days 2 hours ago
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whoever this guy is.he is ignorant and needs to be hung by his own intestines and fall into a pit of rusty barbed wire
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Kwertie - 528 days 16 hours ago
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I don't see how you can claim on patent infringement if the infringer has done so before you even patented it. It's like holy crap, Nintendo travelled to the future and stole my idea.
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