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Nintendo Loses Controller Patent Lawsuit

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kryogen1x alerts slashdot to coverage at 1up indicating that Nintendo controller may soon become scarce - Nintendo lost in court to Anascape over analog sticks in their Wii and GameCube controllers.
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Omegasyde - 522 days 10 hours ago
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They won't become rare, its just that Nintendo has to pay a $^#$^load for licensing of the technology and backpay for the controller.
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Alexander Roy - 522 days 4 hours ago
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Tell that everyone who is trying to play Brawl and actually wants to win.
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Skerj - 522 days 4 hours ago
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Why didn't they just pay them off to prevent all of this?
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kesvalk - 522 days 4 hours ago
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why only Nintendo controlers? every controller in the market have this damn analogic sticks....
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titntin - 522 days 4 hours ago
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They must use a working priciple thats patented.

It simply means they will have to cough up some money. Everyone wants a slice of Ninty pie...
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Kholinar - 522 days 1 hour ago
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Sony and MS already paid the trolls.
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mirroredderorrim - 522 days 3 hours ago
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Bastard patent trolls.
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codeazrael - 522 days 1 hour ago
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6 - Oh sh*t! Say goodbye to all of those profits from the Wii
Just imagine, this company can ask for however much they want from Nintendo or shut Nintendo down!!!!!

Now that's just an epic fail of epic proportions!!!!
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blazing01 - 522 days ago
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he is a fanboy for 360 or ps3
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himdeel - 521 days 22 hours ago
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9 - Ninentdo has the money...
...they could've written the check yesterday. At the end of the day they wont be starving or out on the street begging for change.
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moja - 521 days 20 hours ago
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10 - Who's fault is this?
Well, after reading this jump I concluded that while the big 3 may be guilty of some success, it seems that this Anascape is nothing but a patent troll and has waited years to file this crap (since Gamecube?), and have a buddy relationship with this Texas district court, who in turn is known for bringing the hammer down quite readily on patent infringements. Anyway, there should be a statute of limitations on this sort of thing from an 'IP company'. I can see some old guy going 'Oh, snap!' to the discovery of his patent in someone else's work, but for a company (who's business it is to spam patents knowing the industry's potential ramifications) to play a greedy ninja is f'ed up.
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hairlessape - 521 days 19 hours ago
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11 - hold on
people sure are quick to call Anascape patent trolls without providing any proof.

I've owned every Nintendo system, and every Playstation. I like both companies and am bummed by this ruling. But what if this was software, and it was Microsoft or some other big company being sued, I'm willing to bet the same people that are quick to bash Anascape would flip their opinion.

There is a reason MS and Sony didn't go to court over this, Nintendo was foolish to try and win this.
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