IA Labs Loses Patent Portfolio to Nintendo After Nintendo Wins Patent Lawsuit

[Viper1]

pokoko said:

RolStoppable said:

No, that's not what I am saying. I don't blame Viper1 and others for making you feel very uncomfortable all of a sudden, because you are prone to freak out a little when you get corrected by Nintendo fans. That's just how you are.

What I was actually saying was a suggestion that is in the best interest of both sides: That you should stay out of (most/many?) Nintendo-related threads. You have trouble handling rebuttals, and sometimes even clarifications.

Unfortunately, I didn't get corrected. 

Actually, you did.   You suggested that Nintendo didn't respect other company's patents and your proof of that is Nintendo being found guilty in the suit by Tomita.

But being found guilty of infringement doens't mean they don't respect patents.  When developing the 3DS, they established a legal and respectful connection to a 3D technology license holder that not only had a license but could also manufacture and supply the 3D display itself.  It was either that or license a patent from a single guy, an ex-Sony employee, that has no capabilities of manufacturing and supplying the 3D screen (that's if they even knew his patent existed).

And why would you double license a technology anyway?  Once you've licensed a technology, that's it.  If I were to manufacture a toothpick, do I need to license out all 700+ toothpick patents or just 1?  If I license from only one holder, does that mean I don't repsect the other 700 patents?  No.

By the way, I may not be a patent lawyer but I do have patents and I have a patent lawyer on retainer.  I've also had a patent revoked for infringement that the lawyer and I (along with LexisNexis, WestLaw, USPTO Search, Google Patent, JPO and EPO) never knew existed.  I never disrespected the patent, I simply had no knowledged it existed.