gamecube controller and classic controller banned?

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luinil said:

Smashchu2 said:
Thing is, these people will make a vauge patent and sit on it for years, only to unleash it when they can make money. This one should have been thrown out immediately. It's been 6 years and he's NOW sueing over patent infringment. Anyone with half a brain knows this puppy doesn't fly.

Civil court is broken as hell and no one wants to fix it....

 

I agree. We need to switch to a loser pays system. This guy should be thrown out on his ear for this.

 

I'm actually of the opinion that a patent should be (very) expensive to file (potentially in the $10,000 range) and this fee should be used to investigate whether similar devices already exist, whether a similar patent already exists, and if the patent is specific enough; if the patent is rejected it will come with a series of annotations for the reasons it was rejected and (if these problems are corrected) the patent can be refiled for a similar expensive fee.

This might not seem (entirely) fair for the "Little Guy" but I suspect that they would not be (nearly) as impacted as the large corporations who try to patent everything, or the patent troll who creates the most vague patent and uses lawsuits to generate revenue for their company.