No, not that one. This one.Not sure why they're crying now but, if you haven't gotten a copy yet you'd better get one soon.
So gibson is going to try to get stores to take one of the most popular video games on the market, off the shelfs because they had an idea of do it first and never did it. Envy, thats all that needs to be said...
Greed is my word for it. it's been on since mid 05, and they waited until beginning 08, after they raked in a billion?Greed.
You can't patent a game genre.The only way this would be a real case is if the makers of Guitar Hero copied the guy's "musical simulation" device and sold it in their own name. Problem is you can't copy something that doesn't exist.
I'm not a lawyer but I think it's going to be hard to prove that Activision violated Gibson's patents. When they can say they just copied Guitar Freaks by Konami which pre-dates Gibson's patent. Time LineFebruary 1999 - Guitar Freaks is releasedNovember 1999 - Gibson Records it patentPrior to 2005 - Activision gets Gibson to licence the guitar controlers in the shapes of their various models.2005 to 2007 - Guitar Hero, II, III are releasedNovember 2007 - Rockband by MTV & EA is releasedJanuary 2008 - Gibsion sues Activision, Harmonix Music Systems (who developed both Guitar Hero and RockBand), MTV, EA, and later retail stores
