Nintendo weighed down by Wii Fit patent suit

Okay, let's try & think about this logically: IF IA's claims are true, then Nintendo would have to be one of the most unethical companies in the universe & deserves to burn in the seventh circle of Hell. Ha! As if! For one thing, the Wii Wheel & Wii Zapper have NOTHING to do with fitness or their product (which I've never heard of), and thus has nothing to do with infringement with whatever patents they may have. Secondly, IF their story of Nintendo using their designs left from their (likely non-existent) attempted sales pitches, why then did they wait until now to file suit? Why not when the Wii first launched, or when the first Wii Fit came out? No, this is just another sad case of a company who, failing to make hardly any money with their product, decides to make their fortune by claiming another company stole their designs. And remember folks: the keywords here are "wilfully infringed", which is not the same as "shares some similarities".

Wow. According to so many comments Nintendo is the only altruistic company in existence, only interested in making people happy. And of course all lawsuits are evil. Of course.

Glad GS provided the patent number, I like reading about the claims and seeing if the original patent holds up to that claim.

ok will this ever stop, that's enough now. i'm tired of them acting like little b***. court should not be bogged down by that crap, instead how about bringing all the vatican and other rapists into prison, thank you very much.

This is stupid. They are only suing because they got their greedy mits on new patents and probably thought they could find someone to sue for infringement. Oh Look! A multi-billion dollar gaming giant! Bring out the lawyers!

This is getting ugly...

Nintendo's 1988 Power Pad, originally marketed as Family Fun Fitness by Bandai before Nintendo bought the rights, says hello?

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This is crap., I mean what is the world coming too.. Stupid companies trying to get money buy sueing Nintendo for something that has not been sued befored. I mean all Nintendo is trying to do is give people entertainment and fun yet companies out there just wanna make cheap money and stop peoples fun after they see another companies wealth.

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you don't need to work hard to succeed in this world, you just need a good lawyer.

When one lawsuit ends, another begins. Guess this is what happen when you make a fortune out of products you innovate similar to stuff owned by patent trolls who simply does nothing with it. Nintendo already killed off the earlier patent trollers, it would be a matter of time before IA joins that list.

Leave Nintendo alone!!!!!!

Still having disputes? Jeez why are 3rd party companies trying to make money off of the bigger companies =_=

I'm glad Nintendo is going to go to court first. Now Sony and MS will learn how to defend themselves after the Big N gets another win.

I'm tired of reading of all those law suits. They must be jealous, because Nintendo know how to make money on the technology, and they don't!

Righto! So if the two companies last talk about it in 2008, then why did it take them two years to file a lawsuit against Nintendo?

Wii is rubbish

Wii is rubbish

i don't really see how any of those(excluding wii fit) have anything to do with "exercise" outside of promoting it. last time I checked they were used as controllers, even the balance board(rayman, punch-out). Seems like a very weak case.

Why now? Why not back in early 2008 when it was actually released? IA labs - "Wow look, that product is successful. I know! Let's sue the company because our product has some slight resemblence to it and that company must have snuck into our place and stolen our idea!" Morons.

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we gamers should sue nintendo for making the worst console ever. ..oh wait, they just sold almost double what second place 360 sold this month again:shock: they forced ms and sony to make motion controls:cry: ooooo the pain and suffering:!:

here we go again :(

I wonder if it's even possible to check to see if what you think you made is completely original when compared to the probably millions of patents out there.

The big giant Nintendo will win, they've been getting away with piles of crap for years, although Wii fit has a better ring to it than "Computer Interactive Isometric Exercise and Method for Operatively Interconnecting the Exercise System to a Computer System for use as a Peripheral".

@kosmosfreak2 Finally a voice of logic on these boards. I'd give your post five pluses if I could.

its all about the money

I've said this about every patent lawsuit against Nintendo, Sony, MS, or any other company ~ they should have some working model to be able to sue. I'm sorry but a scribbled drawing with a description doesn't do it for me. This company does seem to have something more tangible but can I just patent something as vague as peripheral used for "such and such" and get money for it later? I can see a case in the balance board but the wii-mote etc were meant as controllers which could also be used in a way to promote exercise.

Too late now Nintendo. Nintendo always do things at the last minute. If they would have pattend their controllers sooner. Sony wouldn't have ripped off the Wii Mote with that PS Move, Hopefully it's a life lesson for them to pattend all of their ideas in the near future.

After looking at the patten (PLZ just google it) they have no claim! what they have is nothing compared to what nintendo has come out with. This is just too much. to come up with something like what they pattented and then try to extend it to cover anything related to phyical movements on a system that uses a CPU is just insane. Yes if they had anything close to what Nintendo came out with then they would have a case but its not even close

but nintendo has sold more of what the person who pattented it ever would

@hannify Is there no repercussions at all for sueing for no reason in america or something? ............................................................................................................. The states are NOT americe. USA is INSIDE america... not all of us consideer the word "SUE" as the response to all or our money problems. "SUE THIS, SUE THAT, I WILL SUE MY MOM" it's USA people style, not AMERICA's people style.

@alexLmx6, its all filled with volcanic ash atm anyway! lmao

This one looks legitimate, unlike half the other patent crap I see. Nintendo's in trouble if the justice system is fair (or if there's some unknown factor I don't know about). If they were trying to sell this technology to Nintendo before Nintendo simply went ahead with it without paying, then I hope that Nintendo has to shell out the cash, because this patent looks real. To those talking about people just randomly patenting stuff, read again. IA labs has actually used this technology that they've patented.

This lawsuit actually looks like it may be legit, but their patent sounds a little too "general" of an idea for it to stick, IMO. And really? The wii wheel and wii zapper? Those two items are pieces of plastic in the shape of real world objects... since when do you patent the "wheel"?

Some of you guys not getting this really makes me question our education system. Says pretty clearly that la labs was trying to sell the patents to nintendo then suddenly Nintendo broke communications and wow look at that the technology suddenly is already implemented. That would be the same as you having the idea for an invention and you patent the idea you try to sell it to a company and after about a year of them thinking about buying your patent and looking over your schematics and dealing suddenly they just stop answering calls and in about a year low and behold the company comes out with almost an identical copy of your product. Weather its a full copy will be left to a judge but regardless its rather unethical. And you guys that fully support Nintendo regardless are the very reason why Nintendo games have been sucking for so long. If they package a turd and sell it you will buy it and facebook how great it is.

Im patenting my name, anyone else with my name, regardless if its spelled different or not im suing you! I mean come on, people are so lazy these days they have to sue someone to make money? GET A JOB YOU BUMS!

Out of the pan and into the fire. What is with these companies suing Nintendo for infringement?

This reminds of that guy who sued everyone last year. XD

Company A: "Durrr Nintendo make good money! We sue them for some of it! Yaaaay!" Nintendo: "That's okay, we'll just go to our money-printing DS's and make more."

please make nintendo pay for making the worst best selling system of all time. best of luck IA Labs

Okay, regardless of what the patent covers, the Wii Wheel and Wii Zapper are both just pieces of plastic. They don't "force measurement" anything! Please please please do NOT settle this lawsuit Nintendo. These punks don't deserve a dime. I hope Nintendo wins and they award them lawyer fees for wasting everyone's time.

This is barely even news nintendo will win maybe they should sue them for damages or something

@fluffy_kins exactly:roll:

hahaha everyone wants a piece of Nintendo's profits! How about instead of SUE SUE SUE!!! .... you go create something innovative and make a name for yourself. Just sayin!

"Computer Interactive Isometric Exercise System and Method for Operatively Interconnecting the Exercise System to a Computer System for use as a Peripheral," -holy jeez, whoever came up with that name deserves to have it stolen. If they made a pure console what would they name it? "Multiple Genre Computer Interactive Recreational Modular Device with Peripheral Interconnective Input and Export Connectivity for use as a Gaming System"?

I might as well sue them for dumb lawsuits. :P

"I am going to patent the air. You dare breathe it anyone and i will sue you!" No wait you can't do that yet. You must wait until someone else makes lots of money off of it before you can do that. Only then can you claim copyright infringement. Just look at all the people trying to sue Nintendo, let them be your guide!

Damn..Nintendo is one cutthroat company. They at least know how to profit off other patents (alledgedly) :P