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Nintendo Suffers $21M Patent Infringement Award
CowTipperGore writes "The AP reports (via Yahoo!) that Nintendo of America Inc. has been ordered to pay a small East Texas gaming company $21 million for infringing on a patent while designing controllers for its popular Wii and GameCube systems. No stranger to lawsuits over controller designs, a Nintendo spokesman said the company will seek an appeal. The suit was originally filed in 2006 and included Microsoft. Microsoft's aggressive legal push back apparently helped as they reached a (confidential) settlement agreement before the case went to trial."
It hasn't stopped judges in the past. All Nintendo had to do was frame the lawsuit as an infringement on their right to privacy. Then the Judge will have no choice but to not only drop the case, but immediately create a new class of laws.
Judges don't have the power to legislate, and there is no right to privacy outlined in the constitution. Neither of these facts seem to matter though.
Women are like electronics: you don't know how damaged they are until you try to turn them on.