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Offline ThePerm

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Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
« on: April 07, 2004, 01:26:33 PM »


i was looking throught the us patent and trademark office today and i notice that theyve put up a gajillion things within the last few days...alot of recent stuff....they even patented jumping in a game.....

sorry if i posted with no content the damn thing sent before i got a chance to write anything

also it seems nintendo is releasing a new controller?



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Offline Ian Sane

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RE: Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2004, 02:37:26 PM »
How could they patent jumping in a game?  Does that mean that Nintendo would get royalties from virtually every game released?  That's a pretty sound strategy.  As far as I know Donkey Kong was the first game to feature jumping in it.  I don't see how a mere concept could be patented though.  Owning a patent to jumping in a game is like owning a patent on the C note in music.
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RE: Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2004, 02:44:37 PM »
First off, make it a hotlink, Perm- nobody likes a wide thread. =\ Secondly, I looked through all of those patents (some of which were filed as far back as November) and I didn't see anything about jumping- it was all hardware or software devices.
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RE: Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2004, 04:00:15 PM »
Yeah, just so you know...Not all of those are Nintendo patents...One of them is even a Microsoft patent...Search accuracy = meh

Controller patented by: Arista Enterprises Inc.
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RE:Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2004, 07:15:01 PM »
It's more like the patent office is approving at a rampage pace. These things were all filed years ago (not all by Nin). It often takes years for approval. There aren't many future clues to be found -- it wasn't until a few months ago that GameCube-specific patents started getting approved.  
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RE: Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2004, 07:55:07 PM »
crap sorry about the long lin fixing that now ...also i was on a mac at school..and the version of internet explorer just resized the link for the table so i didnt notice...

and yeah i know nto all thsoe are nintendo...but yeah some of the finds are interesting.....the uspto is always worth a look around e3.
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Offline Uncle Rich AiAi

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RE: Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2004, 03:23:13 AM »
I've had enough of reading patents the last month.  Argh!  Hurts my head.
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RE: Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
« Reply #7 on: April 16, 2004, 05:38:45 PM »
I think this one might be the one about jumping...
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=26&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=ptxt&S1=nintendo&OS=nintendo&RS=nintendo
Man, the way these things are written... sounds more like legal jargon mixed with technical jargon. I've no idea what it means.  
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