Nintendo, Microsoft due to patent infringement

In our lawsuit happy country, nothing is too surprising anymore. This time around, Microsoft and Nintendo have been hit with a lawsuit by Anascape, a small Texas-based company. Anascape claims that Microsoft and Nintendo have infringed on 12 of its patents relating to game controllers. The patents in question were issued between 1999 and 2005.

It certainly doesn’t take much to get sued anymore. The odd thing is how this unknown company managed these patents when the three leading console producers were using such technologies before the mentioned 1999 date. I hope to see Anascape lose this one quick.