Nintendo faces more patent litigation.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/37455/philips-sues-nintendo-over-wii-remote-tech
Dutch electronics company, Royal Philips NV, has filed suit over what the company believes is infringement of two of its patents by Nintendo’s Wii console remote controller.
The patent Philips believes has been infringed upon is for a “virtual body control device” as well as a “user interface based on a pointing device”. The company hopes to receive compensation for damages as well as a ban of the import of the Wii to the United States.
According to Philips spokesperson Bjorn Teuwsen, Nintendo and Philips had been in negotiations over a possible licensing agreement for the technology since 2011, however, the two sides could not reach an agreement.
Philips filed the suit May 14 at the U.S. Federal District Court in Delaware.
To give you an idea of how much of a problem patent trolls are, Apple and Google have agreed to stop going after each other over patents and to work together to reform the patent system.
I really want to see how Phillips explains how banning Wii imports to the US would improve their business.Stopping the imports isn't really what they want. Free money from nintendo is what they really want. If Nintendo would just write them a check and then promise to pay them for every unit they sell in the future Phillips would be happy.
To give you an idea of how much of a problem patent trolls are, Apple and Google have agreed to stop going after each other over patents and to work together to reform the patent system.
Does Philips actually still make anything? I think I owned a CD player made by them about 15 years ago but until this story I can't remember the last time I saw any of their products or heard anything about them.
This may have little to no relevance of interest, but I was recently diagnosed with severe sleep apnea, and the CPAP machine I use is made by Philips. They're at least still around creating medical devices. I haven't seen any of their multimedia products in years.
This needs some serious reform. They sue seven years after the Wii came out? **** off. That should be automatic dismissal. This product is far too popular for them to have not have known about it all this time and if you snooze, you lose.
