Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony被德州一家叫Fenner投资的公司告上了法庭。这家公司声称所有三家公司的手柄侵犯了该公司一项1998年的“低电压接口界面”专利。

上次的手柄官司是因为震动，这次则和手柄接口有关。

Not a week seems to go by without a lawsuit. This week's legal woes come to Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony courtesy of a suit filed by Texas-based Fenner Investments. The suit claims all three infringed on the company's 1998 patent for a "low-voltage port interface" according to Gamasutra.

While the famed Immersion lawsuit focused on force-feedback technology, this most recent suit is concerned with joystick ports. The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction against the big three.

The merit behind the suit is unclear as of the filing. The patent summary reads: "The joystick port interface according the present invention is a low power port which interfaces a typical 5 Volt joystick peripheral device with a lower power computer port. The low-voltage joystick port interface includes a bidirectional buffer circuit and a pulse generator which, together, generate a digital pulse signal, representing a joystick coordinate position, based on an input analog measurement signal."

It remains to be seen what the next patent lawsuit might be, but we're certain another will come within the next month.

http://wii.ign.com/articles/754/754405p1.html

[ 本帖最后由 wjbobby 于 2007-1-11 11:07 编辑 ]

唉，不就是要敲诈点零花钱用么。

想钱想疯了

不就是想被MS收购么。。。

这年头挣个钱不容易啊

误会标题了

估计移动帖子的某管理员也是看了个标题就移动了。

还以为是microsoft network呢

msn……这个简称强大啊……

……如果真的侵犯了专利……如果这家公司又被微软买下来了……那怎么办？

这专利牛啊，所有的低电压接口都能告了

支持雷公出来搞

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原帖由 xbgbmpsp 于 2007-1-11 15:03 发表
……如果真的侵犯了专利……如果这家公司又被微软买下来了……那怎么办？

买下来还告?那买下来，然后宣布破产,你还告吗?

ps3都用usb咯

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原帖由 糖滕蛋 于 2007-1-11 17:18 发表


买下来还告?那买下来，然后宣布破产,你还告吗?

我没说清楚……

微软把震动的那个什么买下来了~~~PS3的震动就没了~~~如果把什么“低电压接口”给买下来了，另外两家怎么办？不出有线手柄了？还要为以前出的所有产品买单~~~