Nintendo Wii Doesn't Infringe On DVD Playing/Parental Control Patent
from the good-news dept
It's nice to see a patent lawsuit go in the right direction. A judge in LA has tossed out a patent infringement lawsuit against Nintendo concerning parental controls on DVD players. The only problem? The Wii doesn't play DVDs. Of course, Nintendo still faces a number of other patent infringement lawsuits, but at least this one was dealt with relatively quickly.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: dvds, parental controls, patents, wii
Companies: nintendo
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If anything Mike, you should hold this story up as proof that the copyright / patent systems WORK, no?
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Like functionality that blatantly doesn't exist in their product?
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Uh, not at all. The fact that anyone even thought this could work shows how far gone the patent system is. The fact that Nintendo had to spend time and money responding to such an obviously false claim shows how far gone the patent system is.
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Silly lawyers thinking oh Nintendo is a big international company and the Wii relies on discs to play games so it has to be infringing on something for movies....lets sue. sue sue sue sue. And they wonder where the nickname *sharks* came from
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....unless of course the user exercises their right to modify their Wii.
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What about the others?
And how does this patent not fall under "obvious"? DVDs have a rating. Feature request: let a user decide what ratings they want their system to be allowed to play.
And that deserves a patent??
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This machine supports both NTSC and PAL color formats (note: NTSC and PAL are two major analog TV color format standard. For instance the United States uses NTSC, and UK and mass majority of European countries uses PAL). We can pre-configure the color format for you, pls find out the right color format for your locale. Important: even if your TV supports multiple color standard, the games you would purchase in your local stores and domestic online stores may not support multiple standards, so it is important for you to find out the right one.
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Uh, it is really intresting and heartstopping stories. I hope that everything is fine now. That's why after visiting this https://bestparentalcontrolapps.com/spy-on-iphone-text-messages/ all my concerns were dissapeared. I think that all parents must track their kinds and use all parental control application. You don't need to worry about anything. Just follow this rules.
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