The Real Reason Philips Wants to Ban Nintendo’s Wii U? Special Report

[Alby_da_Wolf]

I wouldn't blame Philips, that actually produces and patents a lot of real, working things, for exploiting the US patent system to do some patent trolling too, it's the American way to let companies do that shit, and if you don't troll harder, you get trolled (and usually serious company do it first with the sole goal of settling themartter asap, or getting a cross-license agreement). I despise a lot more pure patent trolls, particularly those that get away with patenting things for which prior art actually existed, or obvious ones that shouldn't be patentable, and I despise even more US patent and legal systems, the former for allowing vague patents and the latter for not dismissing every patent trolling lawsuit since the preliminary hearing. But I won't ever despise a great company like Philips, that through its life produced some of the most reliable devices I and my family ever owned, and in the few cases something went wrong, they were by far the fairest and kindest applying the warranty. Also, their official assistance in my town used to be the best, together with Panasonic one (now for most devices they just replace them under warranty or suggest replacement as cheapest option if out of warranty, but when prices were higher repairing even low-end monitors, TVs, VCRs, etc was the normal procedure unless the damages were too serious and extended through the whole device) . About this particular lawsuit, the background is very controversial, due to Philips and Ninty past relationships, but the goal is quite obvious, getting the money and possibly more credit (so making Philips brand more known also in markets where its presence is currently scarce) for any thing that Philips designed for Ninty or helped designing it.