Microsoft Sues UK's Datel Over Controllers

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 5, 2010 @03:16AM from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.

nathanielinbrazil writes "Microsoft has sued a British manufacturer over the infringement of four of its patents for Xbox game controllers. The suit was filed in Seattle, Washington, and Datel has yet to respond. Datel is a United Kingdom company with a US unit and has produced two specific controllers — the TurboFire and WildFire — that Microsoft wants stopped." The infringing patents are over "portions of a gaming controller" and "portion of a gaming input device having an illuminated region."

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Re:4 + 2 = 4? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-04-05 03:38 · Score: 4, Funny

Specifically, four of the patents - 521,015, D522,011, D547,763 and D581,422 - relate to "portions of a gaming controller", another two, D563,480 and D565,668 cover a "portion of a gaming input device having an illuminated region"

the infringement of four of its patents for Xbox game controllers.
Interrogator: I'll ask you one more time. How many patents do you see? Make it easy on yourself.
Patent Lawyer: THERE. ARE. FOUR. PATENTS!