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Nintendo and Sony sued over device ID transmission

A patent infringement lawsuit against Nintendo and Sony has been filed by the Copper Innovations Group alleging that both companies infringed upon a 1996 patent that "covers a method for connecting devices to a system and sorting their inputs by means of hardware identification numbers tied to each transmission."

Microsoft was not named in the suit because they do not use Bluetooth to connect their controllers to the Xbox 360. Both the PlayStation 3 and Wii use Bluetooth to connect their controllers and therefore were named in the suit.



The plaintiff is hoping for monetary damages as well as an injunction stopping Sony and Nintendo from further infringing upon the 1996 patent.

Both companies have declined to comment on the case as of yet.

Source:
GI.biz

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 11 Jan 2008 18:42

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• 9 comments

• canuckerz

  Imo, his patant is far too vague to be called into play at a time like now especially since it was alreddy this far in to use.

  11.1.2008 22:55 #1

• leviticus

  If this actually pulls through it sounds like we're going back to wired controllers lol.
  
  And I thought the Rumble Feature lawsuit was outrageous, this tops them all!

  11.1.2008 23:05 #2

• spydah

  This is another stupid lawsuit. You know how many products that are on the market currently that use that type of identification to beam bluetooth, and infrared to various devices. This is just another company looking to make a come up off another companies success. Its smart but very dumb at the same time. These companies are like vultures
  because either they arent making any money or not enough.

  11.1.2008 23:08 #3

• vinny13

  WOW.
  
  Just over a year in and now they pull this crap? It's already over.

  11.1.2008 23:44 #4

• emugamer

  Aw man! Leave Nintendo out of this! We need them to make enough money to build their next-gen system :-P

  12.1.2008 08:29 #5

• burnin1

  This is ridiculous, there is tons of products that use bluetooth technology. These people are like bloodsucking vampires, all bout the $$$.

  12.1.2008 08:41 #6

• jove

  whatever happened to the cell lawsuit??? i think its popular to sue sony man. its like you know to call them evil, drm, this, that... lets sue them all we can.

  12.1.2008 09:18 #7

• DXR88

  Quote:Microsoft was not named in the suit because they do not use Bluetooth to connect their controllers to the Xbox 360. Um yes they do. its turned off but its there awaiting new ms bluetooth controllers.
  
  this guy is not going to win this case.

  12.1.2008 13:51 #8

• borhan9

  Ill be waiting for these guys to comment. :)

  25.1.2008 17:23 #9