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Man, I had a great post written about how it's a dumb lawsuit, but my confirmation email never showed up.

Summary: it's a dumb lawsuit. Sigh.

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The original design is a Star Trek Phaser. Go look. The original patent infringes Star Trek copyright, the Nintendo one doesn't infringe either.

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If it's a technical lawsuit... they do completely different things in completely different ways. All the buttons on the wiimote are digital, all on the "pointer" are analogue/"pressure sensitive", and it's not even a pointer, they can't even claim anything about the IR communication because the Wiimote uses bluetooth, not IR to communicate with the main unit. They don't even have any straws to grasp at.
The only similarity is in the design layout, in which case I don't think they can claim it's infringing unless it looks the same, which it doesn't (Nintendo has a patent on the design of the SNES controller, and the original Playstation controller was even more similar to that than this pointer to the wiimote, AND had exactly the same function).
Even if there was some infringment, they'd still have to prove they were losing sales because of the Wii being on the market. Which, for any reason other than "Oh, you mean it points just like that new Nintendo system? Oh, it doesn't? Never mind then" is so laughable I won't even go into it.
They probably listed a trial by jury in the hopes that they'll get ignorant people that can't understand technical jargon and will look at the two products and say "yeah, they're the same I guess." Of course, it's easy to explain in layman's terms why there's no case what-so-ever, so it doesn't really matter.
Most likely, I think they just wanted to try to get Nintendo to pay them off to avoid even higher legal fees. That's the only way they could possibly profit from this.

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Wheres the Don't Sue People Panda when you need him?

Seriously, this company had a good year to complain about this, but they wait until the Wii gains popularity. Just seems like a sad cry for attention to me.

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Now who really didn't see this coming?

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So, does that mean Panasonic can sue them also? I have a remote control that looks remarkably like the WiiMote, but it doesn't do $H!T when I wave it around. :-)

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I see one problem: if this hits court, the jury are probably already looking forward to another game of Wiisports so will throw it out

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I don't comprehend how interlink possibly lost any sales whatsoever as a result of the Wii-mote. The wii-mote is not a competitive product. It does not do the same thing whatsoever nor are either of them even compatible with the same hardware.

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Ahh, Brennan Tallack the thing is Nintendo has money. Interlink is only interested in the green that Nintendo has.

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They just want a quick buck

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This is a sad lawsuit. Here is your 15 minutes of fame, Interlink.

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This is bull

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*sigh* Non-lawyers' opinion of the law -- makes you weep for the education system.

First, you can't sue on a patent until you've done some due diligence -- therefore, they would HAVE to wait until the Wii was released to get their hands on a Wii-mote to analyze it.

Second, you don't even need to BUILD an invention to control the patent, let alone actually SELL the invention. So, no, they don't have to show lower sales -- that's just one possible element of damages.

Anyway, that's enough for now -- and I'm not taking a position on whether the lawsuit is on solid ground or not. Who knows? I'm not an engineer.

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Interlink already tried sueing Nintendo because they had a trigger button (Z trigger) on the n64 controller. Next thing you know they'd be sueing Guns... all the company does is try to take money from well-known companies...

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This lawsuit will be the downfall of Interlink. Why are they just deciding to sue Nintendo now, instead of a year ago when the Wii controller was announced? Answer: They see profit potential now that they see the success of the Wii. If the Wii wasn't successful, they wouldn't have made up this bull^#(% lawsuit in the first place. Any judge with half a brain is going to dismiss this case. Interlink will have wasted a lot of money on lawyers, and they will really lose business now. So long, Interlink!

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Aaah, as usual. Some company wants Nintendo to share profits with them. This Interlink looks funny with its charges

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Oh for the love of... see, this is what's wrong with the world. The patent clearly describes Interlink's device as a computer mouse alternative. If anything becomes of this case other than the judges laughing in Interlink's face, I'm gonna be sick.

I think it's time for the Reginator to start his ass kicking and name taking again. Looks like Interlink is going on the "naught" side of the names list this year.

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@Jeff: Regardless of whether you have to prove reduced sales to prove infringement, they are asking for damages from lost sales to be payed. That's why I said they'd have to prove they were losing sales because of the Wii.

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Umm, yeah that's crap. I actually purchased "said remote" for my company 3 years ago, actually 2 of them. And having just got my Wii a week and a half ago, I never even thought of the two devices being similar at all. And as AuthorX says the Interlink uses RF and has a 100' range, Wii Bluetooth. The interlink uses a circular pad that you rotate around with your thumb, NOWHERE near similar to waving it in 3d space. Unless you consider the Laser pointer on the Interlink to be similar. Basically Lame move Interlink. And they don't have a sensor bar, it is a RF transmitter that connects via USB. Since I have buying power at my company, I will not be buying any of the products they sell anymore. I am tired of lame companies and their lame lawsuits. Granted some are justified, but so many are not, as the afore mentioned one!

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I really, really hope that Nintendo counter-sues for legal fees, and that the amount the court awards Nintendo drives this little patent troll firm into bankrupcy.

Ideally, Satoru Iwata would personally show up at the home of each of Interlink's executives, reposess all their stuff, then throw it in a trash compactor just to spite them -- in front of their children, who would hopefully cry a lot. I want to see all patent trolls *suffer*. This money-grubbing horseshit has got to stop.

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LMAO interlink is pwnt!

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all tv remotes look similar to the wiimote does that mean all tv manufacterers can sue a big company like nintendo. doubt it.

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whats the point of sueing now? people have Wii's (or i do!)
why sue its point less. they already have tons of wii s every where. not like nintendo is gonna stop for some stupid sue from interlink . plus whos herd of this interlink thingamobober anyway?

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It kinda looks like they're waiting for Nintendo to launch before they started to sue. So in my view they are after just the money. There has been a long time advertisement of what the control looks like and does and yet that company doesn't do anything until after launch. I don't understand why they didn't bring up this up way before the launch. If there's more that is missing in, please do add. I'd like to understand it a bit better.

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