MSN又被告了！

Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony被德州一家叫Fenner投资的公司告上了法庭。这家公司声称所有三家公司的手柄侵犯了该公司一项1998年的“低电压接口界面”专利。

上次的手柄官司是因为震动，这次则和手柄接口有关。

Not a week seems to go by without a lawsuit. This week's legal woes come to Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony courtesy of a suit filed by Texas-based Fenner Investments. The suit claims all three infringed on the company's 1998 patent for a "low-voltage port interface" according to Gamasutra.

While the famed Immersion lawsuit focused on force-feedback technology, this most recent suit is concerned with joystick ports. The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction against the big three.

The merit behind the suit is unclear as of the filing. The patent summary reads: "The joystick port interface according the present invention is a low power port which interfaces a typical 5 Volt joystick peripheral device with a lower power computer port. The low-voltage joystick port interface includes a bidirectional buffer circuit and a pulse generator which, together, generate a digital pulse signal, representing a joystick coordinate position, based on an input analog measurement signal."

It remains to be seen what the next patent lawsuit might be, but we're certain another will come within the next month.

http://wii.ign.com/articles/754/754405p1.html

[ 本帖最后由 wjbobby 于 2007-1-11 11:07 编辑 ]