Well now Nintendo has really done it know they have stolen someones...IDEAS! Acording to an Illinois man Nintendo has stolen his patent on the touch screen. But I don't want to give out ALL the details go ahead and read the article.
Thanks to its innovative design and wealth of fantastic games, the Nintendo DS has scrambled to the top of the handheld gaming war, making the hardware wizards at Nintendo the darlings of the games industry.
But what if they don't hold the patent on the touchy tech?
As reported by video game blog Gamepolitics, John R. Martin has filed a complaint alleging that he owns the patent on the system's lauded touch screen. While the patent was updated in August of 2005 -- a full six months after Nintendo launched the DS -- it was originally filed a decade earlier in 1995.
The patent seems to cover the key input ingredient of Nintendo's popular handheld, citing "an improved method of operating a touch screen on a CRT or ICD computer screen [that] uses finger release as input registering" in "an electronic game device system [which] is switchable between an amusement mode and a gaming or gambling mode and is useful for vehicles such as airplanes or boats..."Sounds a little like the DS to us, minus the gambling bit.
Nintendo, however, doesn't see the connection -- the company has responded by requesting that the entire suit be summarily dismissed.
This isn't Nintendo's first scrape with patent infringement. Earlier this year the company coughed up $21 million to tech company Anascape over several Nintendo game controllers, including their famous Wavebird, widely considered the first legitimate wireless game controller.
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If not his claim will be shredded before his eyes like most other fools just simply patenting concepts and drawings with nothing even remotely technical accomplished. After much badgering and insults they finally grew a pair and started smashing the real trolls while leaving the actual development houses to continue on their path.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamecom
you don't see them whining.
Nintendo patented the D pad way way ago, but companies found little technical and visual loopholes to be able to use it.