First it was people suing because McDonalds made them fat, then people were suing because their coffee was hot, now this idiot is suing Nintendo for a patent he putting on something, which he describes in his patent, very vague and ungeneral. Idiots will sue for anything nowadays.

Someone might want to inform him that touch screen CRTs have long since been patented, manufactured, and gone out of style like moon-boots. They were largely used in Point Of Sale terminals (read, Cash Registers). You can probably still find them in some retail space today.



Seriously, a CRT?!? Are we living in the stone age and lugging around "portable" games that weigh more than my backpack in highschool?



Furthermore, what the hell is an "ICD"?!? I know Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD) screens are commonly used today. The DS has two of them, but you could hardly call patient infringement for that. PDAs have had LCD touchscreens for years. People can play games on PDAs too. I'm pretty sure that's where Nintendo got the idea in the first place.



Oh yeah, and claiming infringement on something that was produced BEFORE your patent... this doesn't have a leg to stand on.

It's a frustrating world we live in when any time you come up with a new idea, you have to spend hours upon hours of research to see if anyone did anything vaguely similar in the past (or didn't and patented it anyway).



And even then, things like this happen.

"There is also one big snag in Martin's claims: the Nintendo DS was released in 2004, while Martin's patent for the gaming table (as described above) is dated on August 2005. "



Case dismissed with prejudice. The judge won't even consider it.