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BlueCrab wrote:There's nothing to patent. After all, he's just using the normal method that the Wiimote works to do this.SegaRenaissance wrote:I hope he has a patent and at least is considering branding his idea into a product. I'd definitely buy one!
If he were to try to patent it, Nintendo's lawyers would be all over him in a heartbeat (and rightfully so).
Gary_b wrote:He wouldn't need one to sell them either. I would buy it as it is and I really do not see much competition for something like this.
BlueCrab wrote:You seem to misunderstand what patents are and what they aren't. You have to have something novel to patent it. There's nothing novel here -- all he's doing is stuff that has already been done. There's literally nothing to patent (unless he wanted a "design" patent on a finalized design for a device... but those are next to useless anyway).
Also, if you think that Nintendo doesn't have patents on the Wii Remote, you're very much mistaken. Sure, they've used technology covered by other patents (and licensed them properly, be it the "right" way or through the course of legal proceedings), but that doesn't mean that they don't have their own plethora of patents on it too.
Using a Wii Remote attached to a light gun isn't anything novel. He's literally using the Wii Remote exactly as it was designed to be used. The meat and potatoes of the whole thing is the Wii Remote figuring out where you're pointing -- which is exactly how it is designed to be used. Yes, it's clever what he's done, but it isn't novel. Clever doesn't get patents -- novel does.
Also, unless he was planning on selling quite literally at least hundreds of thousands of these devices, the costs of patenting it (and defending said patents) would quite possibly outweigh the potential income from it.
yuppers, to get around a design patent is as simple as making a new design that has the same function. Edison would not allow Tesla to use his light bulbs when Tesla won the bid to light up the worlds fair so Tesla simply designed a new light bulb. he had a pretty basic design at that too. point is design patents are not worth much.SegaRenaissance wrote:(Rewatches Video).
Hmmm....It seems like he's just modding a sensor to allow the monitor to read a light gun.
This can be loopholed very quickly patentwise with a proper switch of output engineering(i.e. just designing a sensor to function specifically for the purpose of allowing an HD TV to read a Lightgun.).
This is a very basic, fan homebrew mod. Not very imaginative, he could do better if he cared.
But I like the idea, I believe it could easily work.
Gary_b wrote:yuppers, to get around a design patent is as simple as making a new design that has the same function. Edison would not allow Tesla to use his light bulbs when Tesla won the bid to light up the worlds fair so Tesla simply designed a new light bulb. he had a pretty basic design at that too. point is design patents are not worth much.SegaRenaissance wrote:(Rewatches Video).
Hmmm....It seems like he's just modding a sensor to allow the monitor to read a light gun.
This can be loopholed very quickly patentwise with a proper switch of output engineering(i.e. just designing a sensor to function specifically for the purpose of allowing an HD TV to read a Lightgun.).
This is a very basic, fan homebrew mod. Not very imaginative, he could do better if he cared.
But I like the idea, I believe it could easily work.
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