Nintendo loses Wii motion controller lawsuit to Philips

[joeorc]

whatever said:
Patent law is so broken. Instead of encouraging and protected innovation, in it's current form it only stifles innovation.

100% agreement, though i do understand it from a companies perspective to protect what they create, but on the same token its rather silly to try to stop others from improving on such designs...lol i mean look at philips, they really did not or was not doing anything with the patent other than wait to pounce on some company to make a viable usage product of such patent, though its in the right of the patent holder to decide that, but such is life for laws, general use and open source is in my opinion the way to go, pay a lil bit up front than that covers the usage. but there is so many d@mn patents how would you ever get done..lol paying before you even release such a product. hell just in patent fee's alone you could spend way more than the product is worth @ retail just paying for a part of the product just so you can release such a product..lol