Valve Sued by Immersion over Steam Deck and Index Rumble

Re:Valve Sued by Immersion over Steam Deck and Index Rumble by jeroenhd on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @07:37AM (#35973889)

Once again the current patent system is shown to dampen innovation rather than accelerate it. The fact this type of patent extortion for commonplace features is even possible shows how much the system needs to be improved.

Unless these patents will be invalidated, this company will be able to sue any other company for 27 whole years for "thing vibrates when you touch it", "thing vibrates based on what's on the screen", "thing vibrates when you touch if (but with an algorithm somewhere)", "thing vibrates when something happens", "thing vibrates when you move your finger", or "thing vibrates when you push".

This is legal extortion.

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Re:Valve Sued by Immersion over Steam Deck and Index Rumble by Vt71fcAqt7 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @11:00AM (#35976245)

To add, one of the "infringed" patents here:

1. A computer-readable medium having instructions, the instructions including instructions that cause a processor to:

detect a first pressure on a first input device;

provide a first tactile sensation to the first input device, the first tactile sensation based at least in part on the first pressure;

[...][0]

In general any patent that doesn't help the reader recreate the invention should not be valid. They should be more like instruction manuals "describing the said invention or discovery, clearly, truly and fully,"[1] rather than a list of vague ideas.

[0]https://patents.google.com/patent/US7336260B2

[1]https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Lar...

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