Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: ThePerm on April 07, 2004, 01:26:33 PM
Title: Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
Post by: ThePerm 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?
Title: RE: Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
Post by: Ian Sane 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.
Title: RE: Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
Post by: mouse_clicker 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.
Title: RE: Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
Post by: Bill Aurion 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.
Title: RE:Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
Post by: BigJim 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.
Title: RE: Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
Post by: ThePerm 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.
Title: RE: Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
Post by: Uncle Rich AiAi on April 14, 2004, 03:23:13 AM
I've had enough of reading patents the last month. Argh! Hurts my head.
Title: RE: Nintendo in a patenting rampage?
Post by: Gremio 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.
