July 23rd, 2008 by
Filed under: Gaming
Sony and Microsoft may have sorted things out with Anascape (otherwise known as the self-proclaimed ruler of all analog sticks) before things got too out of hand, but Nintendo has been busy fighting it out with the company in court, which resulted in them being ordered to dish out a hefty $21 million earlier this year — a ruling that Nintendo naturally appealed. The big N is now facing another setback, however, as a US District Judge has rejected Nintendo’s request for a new trial, which could potentially result in a ban on sales of Wii Classic Controllers, WaveBirds, and GameCube controllers (not to mention GameCube systems). To avoid that, Nintendo will apparently either have to post a bond or put royalties from the controllers into an escrow account. For its part, Nintendo seems to be remaining defiant, saying that it “was already planning to appeal this case to the Federal Circuit court,” and that this new ruling “does not impact that decision.”
[Via Slashdot]
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June 17th, 2008 by
Filed under: Cellphones
Klausner Technologies’ litigious ways have already proven successful with Vonage, and it now looks like the company has got what it wanted out of Apple as well, which it had sued (along with AT&T) back in December over the iPhone’s Visual Voicemail feature. As Reuters reports, both Apple and AT&T have agreed to license Klausner’s patents relating to Visual Voicemail, and settle the lawsuit that was brought against them, although any other details are expectedly light at the moment. It seems that Klausner isn’t quite content to sit on its patents just yet, however, with Reuters also reporting that the company is “in discussions” with both Comcast and Cablevision about them using the very same technology.
[Via CNET News.com]
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February 20th, 2008 by
Filed under: Desktops, Misc. Gadgets, Laptops
Implicit Networks isn’t exactly a household name, but it sure looks like its trying to make itself known with its latest lawsuit, which takes aim at no less than Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Sun and Real Networks (plus semiconductor company Raza Microelectronics). As you’ve no doubt surmised, the cause of all that litigiousness is some alleged patent infringement by those big name companies, and specifically a violation of Implicit’s patent for “Methods and System for Demultiplexing a First Sequence of Packet Components to Identify Specific Components Wherein Subsequent Components are Processed without Re-identifying Components.” Exactly what that is, we’re not sure, but Implicit claims that each of the aforementioned companies violated it in their own particular way, and it’s now demanding an unspecified amount of cash in return.
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