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Nintendo Loses Controller Patent Lawsuit

Posted by kdawson on from the break-out-the-brain-computer-interface dept.

kryogen1x alerts us 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.This isn't the first time the big manufacturers have been targeted in lawsuits involving features in their controllers. From the article: "The lawsuit concerns the analog sticks in the Classic Controller and GameCube controllers, which Texas-based Anascape Ltd. claims to hold a patent on that Nintendo violated. The court has ruled in favor of Anascape, and US District Judge Ron Clark has rejected Nintendo's request for a new trial. As a result, Clark said he will put a ban on the sale of the controllers (which includes sales of GameCube systems) starting tomorrow, July 23, unless Nintendo posts a bond or puts royalties into an escrow account."

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  1. Re:What. by hedwards · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That's by design, the vast majority of posts here contribute nothing of particular value and or say nothing at all.

    People would have to have a huge number of mod points to handle that.

  2. Re:What. by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    However, saying "What. The. Fuck." without giving a single reason why the article warrants that is really a waste of a comment. May as well just tag it wtf and be done with it.

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  3. Re:I couldn't find info about Anascape by Lehk228 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    dude, the 2nd amendment says nothing about shooting te h jooz, which is clearly what you want to do.

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  4. Re:I couldn't find info about Anascape by meringuoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Anontalk was responsible, I know that.

    Debatable. The most detailed explanation of what's going on was on Encyclopaedia Dramatica; it seems to be a matter of multiple script kiddies going at each other. Someone DOS'd a lot of chans a couple of days ago and framed some other idiot for it. In the subsequent confusion, and lack of information and coordination with few chans actually up, it seems that people from every downed chan on the net leapt to a variety of conclusions about who was behind it all, and retaliated blind. Anything not DOS'ing is being DOS'd.

    Anontalk may very well be DOS'ing 4chan now, but they probably didn't begin it.

    tl;dr: chan war for teh epic lulz.

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