Monitored Alarm Systems

Just how many patents can be covered in a single piece of technology? I think we're trying to break a record with the Wii Remote.



entry today comes to us via Gamasutra, who alerted the news that Nintendo has sued UltimatePoints and several outlets - including Best Buy Wal-Mart, Target, Kmart, Gamestop and more - for violating its patent, number 7,746,321, for a "single interactive display live scoring and display systems of control or calibration method" (which is a meal. ) As ThinkOptic patents, it was presented in the same year revealed that the Nintendo Wii in the world. Not only that, filed the same month. It does not mean anything, just a few facts.

According to the court filing (PDF embedded below), which took place in East Texas, of course, Nintendo is guilty of a technology that was designed and completed before the filing of the patent UltimatePoints. Which of course means that all Nintendo and retailers are those who deliberately violate this patent. So now, according UltimatePoints, Nintendo will treble damages and licensing fees.



There is a difference between the patent and the patents registered by ThinkOptic: the Wavit is actually available for purchase. UltimatePoints product Upoint, is still in "testing", so many years later. Why bother building a real product if you can score a patent and prosecute those who
really understand the technology? Once again, we have to think about the process that allows a company to be pursued independently develop similar technology to another before being patented. It really is not the breed confidence in the technology market