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Sony ordered to pay Dual Shock license fees to Immersion
Illustration Rob Fahey 14:34 13/01/2005 Court ruling could end up costing Sony $27 million a year in licensing charges A new ruling in the ongoing legal battle between Sony and US firm Immersion Corp has ordered the Japanese giant to pay a quarterly license fee for its use of force feedback technology in PlayStation hardware and games. Immersion's original lawsuit against Sony was upheld last September, with a jury awarding the company $82 million in damages after deciding that the PlayStation, the Dual Shock controller and over 40 videogames all infringed Immersion's patents. Taken From: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=6273
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13-01-2005, 07:09 PM
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LOL finally a large company like them getting sued. again :P
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13-01-2005, 07:59 PM
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I read something else in a magazine a while ago. Apparantly, this guy, while in the 80s, invented a method of displaying 3D graphics on a cimputer screen, he patented it and then forgot about it. This same method has been used by almost every games company on the planet (without knowing that it was patented). The guy has just realized that he owns the patent and is lining up lawsuits aganst many large gaming companies.
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13-01-2005, 08:49 PM
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That'll be the one.
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13-01-2005, 08:50 PM
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wow thats sad i hope they win
is it his tech?or did sony make the tech without knowing it was patented? |
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13-01-2005, 09:11 PM
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Misread last post, so this one doesn't make much sense now...
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14-01-2005, 08:14 AM
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bah, the immersion bastards, just sucking money from honest companies like Sony and Microsoft..
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14-01-2005, 12:44 PM
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Which are rich enough to share their money for free, by the way. As they don't do that, they deserve in my opinion to be forced to give their money out to someone who has the courage to sue them to rip it off them.
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14-01-2005, 01:58 PM
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well, microsoft alredy went through that antitrust trial so its good that they aren't getting sued
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