Holy moly... lawsuit overload for consoles
by Nick Doerr 
{ Aug 7th 2006 at 3:30PM }
Anascape Ltd. wants to make some money, fast. They can't quite decide on a new marketing scheme, or an innovative product. Someone jokingly suggests they sue the big console companies for a dozen patent infringements. The boss likes the idea and they do. Yes, that's right. Nintendo and Microsoft are under fire from this company for breaching patents on game controllers. Joystiq does a nice job of recounting the numerous charges, so to save redundancy, they will be omitted here. But, twelve? That's a lot.You may have noticed Sony isn't involved in this one. But, looking at the charges, especially, well, all of them, Sony's controller should be in the middle of this one also. But it isn't! Hooray? Even so, if Anascape wins this case, Microsoft and Nintendo will have to bleed money. Will it help PS3 gain ground in the next console war? Doubtfully, but at least for once there's a patent lawsuit where Sony isn't getting manhandled. Still... how many of these lawsuits are popping up? If there's a season for tornadoes, there's a season for "get rich quick by suing bigger companies" season. One of these is a lot longer than the other.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Next-Gen-Gamer @ Aug 8th 2006 2:06AM
I love it when fanboys say The Inquirer "lies". However, when they're talking about the competition, the fanboys are suddenly quiet, and take this to be true.
I'm not denying the company exist. I'm not denying the patents exist. I've seen the patents. However, that's EXACTLY what The Inquirer does. They take something that actually exists, and then build a fake story around it. Yes the company and patents exist, but where does it say (except on The Inquirer) that the company is suing Microsoft and Nintendo? It doesn't, because they're probably not.