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[BuddyC]

Looks like this stuff is making the rounds again, just got this in my inbox.

Hey guys,

I don't know if anyone else has caught wind of this yet, but it looks like Nintendo filed four new patents on last Tuesday, including "Interface for controlling a graphical image" and "Controller Grip for a video game machine." Be sure to check out the images included with the first patent, there are lots of diagrams illustrating some sort of glove interacting with a screen image, as well as others.

Interface for controlling a graphical image:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...ND&d=ptxt&s1=nintendo&OS=nintendo&RS=nintendo

Controller Grip for a Video game machine:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...ND&d=ptxt&s1=nintendo&OS=nintendo&RS=nintendo

Sorry if this is old—keep up the good work!

Things to note:

From the first patent, regarding interface:

Inventors: Kramer; James F. (Redwood City, CA); Maier; Felix (Oberboihingen, DE); Kuo; Laurence (Toronto, CA)
Assignee: Immersion Corporation (San Jose, CA)
Appl. No.: 837860
Filed: April 17, 2001

From the second, about controller grips:

Inventors: Hughes, IV; Richard James-Patrick (30-25 31st St., Apartment 4A, Astoria, NY 11102)
Appl. No.: 574044
Filed: May 18, 2000

In conclusion:
Even if these patents were filed/assigned to Nintendo, they're old old old. Sure, they were recently approved, but the applications for these patents were filed 4 to 5 years ago.

So please, as bishop would say, don't bring this mud into my nice, clean house.

 

[Culex]

Agreed. There's more often than not, far too much speculation on patents that have been pending for years.

 

[deadhorse32]

I rencently check the USPTO database. All the recent Nintendo's patents are about the DS.And i'm not talking about some new DS "stuff" just the DS (A handheld with 2 LCD, touch screen & co)

 

[sprsk]

has there ever been a case where a patent has revealed info about a new system

 

[Dragona Akehi]

No.

 

[sangreal]

has there ever been a case where a patent has revealed info about a new system

xbox 360

 

[Dragona Akehi]

xbox 360

That's not a Nintendo system though. It's all the Nintendo fanatics that dig through mouldy old patents.

Thus far, there hasn't been a single bloody "discovery" from a patent. They've all been old.