I wonder if they are owen in part by sony or have deals with sony to bring up suchh thigns now is silly...this is why the pantent system needs to be overhauled,I am a inventor at heart and see how soem idea protection can be a good thing but the mindless for coperation setup they have now is painfully obseleet...

Just more patent trolls coming out of there holes when there's a lot of money to try to extort. Nothing new.. just ask RIM amoungst other...

This yet again is another frivolous lawsuit that should be dismissed with prejudice. The technology has been around for awhile and it takes them THIS long to figure it out? DAYMN I wonder what they've been smokin' and If I could have some!! lol

Oh and from now on my username is patent number 107584764576453764 umpity billion and is trademarked!! ;o) lol

so this leads to my next question how did sony get troucned was the case in the cogs of justice for 5+ years and sony got to make the PS2 with the rubmle and all that during that time?

The rumble was immersions and that's why they sued sony so now I'm confused.Also the gamepads for pc's should be implicated in these lawsuits as well.

I think this lawsuit is stupid.Why didn't they say something back then if they thought it was a patent infringement.

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I am still wondering why Sony isn't included in the lawsuit.
Oh well. Well just have to let the justice system proceed.

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I think It's because Sony had the original Dual-Shock for the PSX out well before Anascape had any patents. The Dual-Shock 2 was just an updated version that was also already in development before anything was patented.

umm if it can go after the n64 then the PSX is as fair game as it is,unless sony actuly paid for one of its non sony patents 0-o

Yeah, I guess that's true.

WTF???????????????? are these people nutz they dont even have a web site shut the hell up sit down keep quiet and make sure to keep sony out of it

Anuscape ?

Meh. Patent law should be changed so you're not allowed to camp and pick and choose who you sue. Either a patent is granted to the public (HTML and the like), or it's enforced as soon as you hear about it.

"Anuscape ?

Meh. Patent law should be changed so you're not allowed to camp and pick and choose who you sue. Either a patent is granted to the public (HTML and the like), or it's enforced as soon as you hear about it. "

I second that. Law at large should be reviewed to prevent such embarrassing displays of laziness and stupidity...

The biggest bullshit ever.

Like what the fuck is Anascape?! I bet you Nintendo is scratching their heads, saying WTF? Man, Nintendo gets all of their sh*t from Japan or China, or whatever. Not Texas. LOL.

As for Microsoft, it's a different story.

The problem with invention, is that most likely several people with the same idea were working on getting the same produt off the ground at the same time. It then, just comes down to who got it pattented first.

The hard part after that is to be able to document your work to make sure that you can prove that someone "ripped you off".

An example is XM radio. There were hundreds of people that had the idea of digital radio signals, but the prize went the to company with enough venture capital to launch sattelites and pattent the technology.

This guy has a long battle ahead of him!

JDelta, edit your post.

throw it out...drop the case, and fine them for even wasting one persons time.

what did they do? read xbox and gamecube development news and file a patent based on what they read?

has anascape even developed their own video game controller? lets see these controllers

http://wii.qj.net/Anascape-Ltd-Drags-Nintendo-and-Microsoft-to-Court/pg/49/aid/60736

http://dl.qj.net/lawsuit-document-from-anascape-ltd.-media-tools-xbox-360-applications/pg/12/fid/9216/catid/337

not just 1 but 12 patanets,and the reason this dose not effect sony is becuse SONY is backing/funding Anascape in court it seems altho if I am wrong I am *L*.

http://consoles.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/10048/

stupid dailup takes forever to laod...

This is all about money. If you own a patent and step in to have a competing company cease production right away, there is no money to be made. However, if you just sit back and watch, then you claim damages for years back.

Not to shabby a way to make a couple of bucks with little to no manufacturing cost to you. All you have to do is come up with an idea and patent it.

Unfocused
pretty much,this loop hole needs to be closed and changed.

Yes, this loophole is rather flawed. It is happening right now between Apple and Creative over who patented the portable Mp3 player first. It has also happened many times between Microsoft and Apple over various things.

Now, we have a bunch of previously unheard of companies coming out of the woodwork waving their patent papers in one hand, and using their other hand to display the universally accepted "show me the money" gesture.

Now, I don't know anything about the patent process, or how detailed one needs to be to obtain a patent, but reading these patents, I'm reminded of the predictions of Nostradamus (spelling?). "The world will end in a fiery Inferno." This quote is so vague; it can be applied to just about any global situation. Not so very different from what is happening in the courtrooms regarding these patents.

Unfocused
you would think the coperations would jump on this and make thier puppets in office fix it,altho if you put a stangle hold on patents would it stiffle inovation or the coperations themelf....altho alittle weeding inthe corpate world is never a bad thing...

the broad @ the drive thru @ mcdonalds spilled some hot coffee on me...im suing.

goodswipe
ya but the coperations complained and the gov but limits and caps on what you can get *L*

ill tell you what i got zippy...3rd degree burns on my c%ck...

could someone enlighten us about why sony and the other 30 or so companies that make controllers wouldn't be part of the new "patent troll" attack?

lol I think only Anuscape know for sure:D