Nintendo Wii Doesn't Infringe On DVD Playing/Parental Control Patent
from the good-news dept
It’s nice to see a patent lawsuit go in the right direction. A judge in LA has tossed out a patent infringement lawsuit against Nintendo concerning parental controls on DVD players. The only problem? The Wii doesn’t play DVDs. Of course, Nintendo still faces a number of other patent infringement lawsuits, but at least this one was dealt with relatively quickly.
Filed Under: dvds, parental controls, patents, wii
Companies: nintendo
Comments on “Nintendo Wii Doesn't Infringe On DVD Playing/Parental Control Patent”
Frivolous?
I thought lawyers could get punished for filing frivolously. IMHO I think they need to up the punishment… electro-shock therapy anyone?
Re: Frivolous?
waste of electricity. Need something better.
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Rock rope and a place for them to tread water for hours?
Re: Re: Re: Frivolous?
Stabbing is pretty cheap, isn’t it?
Re: Re: Re:2 Frivolous?
Yes, but really messy…
Re: Re: Re:3 Frivolous?
And its hard to keep them on the plastic sheeting.
Re: Re: Re:4 Frivolous?
Yeah.. it takes days to clean up after them. Please keep the mess to a min.
Re: Re: Re:5 Frivolous?
How about well placed rocksalt blasts to the crotch?
Re: Re: Re:6 Frivolous?
Make them clean up a golf range.
Re: Re: Re:7 Frivolous?
Live action Frogger on a Highway?
Re: Re: Re:8 Frivolous?
Being stuck in a room with Ricky Martin, Lou Vega, and Ja Rule, and we told them that the person we’re punishing has one last record contract to give out…
Re: Frivolous?
It would be a big jump to show a completely frivolous filing.
If anything Mike, you should hold this story up as proof that the copyright / patent systems WORK, no?
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“It would be a big jump to show a completely frivolous filing.”
Like functionality that blatantly doesn’t exist in their product?
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If anything Mike, you should hold this story up as proof that the copyright / patent systems WORK, no?
Uh, not at all. The fact that anyone even thought this could work shows how far gone the patent system is. The fact that Nintendo had to spend time and money responding to such an obviously false claim shows how far gone the patent system is.
Re: Re: Re: Frivolous?
Think about that the next time you get stopped for a crime you didn’t commit. It’s the nature of the free world.
you could line them all up and try to use the same bullet
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Have you seen the price of ammunition these days?
Very smart move on Nintendo’s part not allowing their system to play dvd’s. Though if it had the ability to play blue ray that would be one cheap blue ray player and they would have sold that many more systems. Even thought it took me quite a while to find one for my fiance.
Silly lawyers thinking oh Nintendo is a big international company and the Wii relies on discs to play games so it has to be infringing on something for movies….lets sue. sue sue sue sue. And they wonder where the nickname *sharks* came from
“The Wii doesn’t play DVDs….”
….unless of course the user exercises their right to modify their Wii.
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Hey, I put in my name dadgummit! – Jason
What about the others?
So does this mean Sony and Microsoft are infringing? Are they being sued, or are they already licensing this patent?
And how does this patent not fall under “obvious”? DVDs have a rating. Feature request: let a user decide what ratings they want their system to be allowed to play.
And that deserves a patent??
Sawed Off Shotgun
This proves that the patent troll mentality uses a shotgun approach to litigation. Pull the trigger enough times while spinning the shotgun around and you just might hit something. No need to verify whether your claims have merit, its time to win the lotto.
Actually
The Wii /can/ play DVD’s, just not natively, see site for details (http://wiibrew.org/wiki/DVDX)
Re: Actually
Which suggests that perhaps the plaintiffs saw a modified WII in action?
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Ughh
People try to sue so quickly now a days to try and make a quick buck. It’s kinda pathetic. If you’re gonna try and sue someone, at least make sure you have good grounds
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