When ur on top. The lil guy's will come for You like there's no tomorrow.

I can't believe it, in those case I believe that the plaintif should prove that his ideas were copied. I mean, someone could have come up with the idea for himself and made the damn wiimote out of this. it's like we don't even have any rights to our own ideas as soon as someone else thought it before us?



Rules does apply and when you have a problem, you find a way to fix it. Many people will come up with the same idea.



Anyway, this is getting ridiculous.

Whoever makes it big, with some movie right or a system like the Wii that Nintendo created there will be a big wanted sign on your back that people will try to sue you for something.

What started as a system to protect inventions and "encourage innovation" has quite obviously turned into a political and litigious quagmire. So many patents are filed every year, they try to be as vague as possible, and I'm sure there are lots of very similar and in some cases completely superfluous patents out there. Just look for the patent for "a method for swinging on a swing." I don't remember the link, but I ran across it while looking up patent reform information.



This is just compounded by the Free Trade Agreement and the fact that none of the patent organizations in the world share information.



Here's another problem, the development of the 802.11 wireless standard has been brought to a halt because some Australian science agency who's name escapes me has decided to file patent infringement on other companies in the 802.11 development team... WTF?!?!?!?!?

I'm sorry, but if you join a consortium to develop an OPEN STANDARD you really have no right to sue other members for developing and selling the resulting technology. Once again, patent trolling at its best.



/rant