Is this Ron Clark the famous one?

I really hate US for this reason, anyone can put a lawsuit due to unlogical reasons.

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Cawley had argued that Anascape was entitled to a ban on the Nintendo controllers because Anascape wants to enter the market.
If this guy said me that, laughing out loud right on his face is not an option is a must.
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lol

I this joker has no case to start with. Not only was there prior art in the form of Trackball, but also in IBM's trackpad. There is not much difference between the motion of a trackpad and a controller's analogue stick.

Sony and Microsoft settled too soon and have lost out. They should have battled this guy as he is so obliviously a patent whore.

I really don't understand how Anascape are managing this. I mean, supposedly he's been developing these ideas since the 1970s... so why did he only file for the patents in question:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=33&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22Armstrong%3B+Brad+%22&OS=%22Armstrong;+Brad+%22&RS=%22Armstrong;+Brad+%22
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=2&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=anascape&OS=anascape&RS=anascape

: after the release of both Nintendo's N64 controllers (with analogue stick and rumble pak) and Sony's PS1 DualShock (with two analogue and vibration bits)?

I mean, if you believe the patents he even invented the trackball (in 1996) though according to wikipedia it was actually invented in 1952.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackball

I think that these patents are all obvious extentions of their component's uses and all of them have prior art in the same or similar fields.

I hope Nintendo wins this one and teaches this patent troll a lesson...