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Nintendo facing patent lawsuit over DS!!!

videogames.yahoo.com — Illinois man claims to have touched first.As reported by video game blog Gamepolitics, John R. Martin has filed a complaint alleging that he owns the patent on the system's lauded touch screen.

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  • Coldmetal, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2"The patent seems to cover the key input ingredient of Nintendo's popular handheld, citing "an improved method of operating a touch screen on a CRT or ICD computer screen [that] uses finger release as input registering" in "an electronic game device system [which] is switchable between an amusement mode and a gaming or gambling mode and is useful for vehicles such as airplanes or boats..."

    Seems like you can patent anything and eventually get a lawsuit out of your patent. Clearly I should patent my idea for flying pigs in hell. Someone will do it and I'll sue their pants, or shall I say bacon off.
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