Watchman
03-31-2005, 01:06 PM
Oh, that wacky Sony, always causing problems.
As found on DVD Hardware.net:
Sony ordered stop PlayStation sales and pay $90 million
Posted on Monday, March 28 2005 @ 15:18:32 CEST by LSDsmurf (http://www.dvhardware.net/)
A U.S. court has ruled Sony to stop selling PlayStation consoles in the United States and to pay $90 million in damages to Immersion.
Immersion is a developer of digital touch technologies. They claimed that Sony violated one of its patents with its vibrating game controller. Sony said that it would appeal the decision. For the moment Sony will keep selling PlayStation consoles because the order will not go into effect before the appeal.
The patent infringement case covers the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, two game controllers and 47 games.
Source: Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8010054&type=technologyNews)
http://www.dvhardware.net/article4470.html
Nothing really to worry about, Sony has a fleet of lawyers, but if the court upholds this ruling after the appeal, we could see a drought of availability until Sony pays them off; this would seem likely as opposed to trying to rehab their own Dualshock controllers with their own design- which would take longer and cost more than just caving in and paying royalties and punitive damages.:roll:
As found on DVD Hardware.net:
Sony ordered stop PlayStation sales and pay $90 million
Posted on Monday, March 28 2005 @ 15:18:32 CEST by LSDsmurf (http://www.dvhardware.net/)
A U.S. court has ruled Sony to stop selling PlayStation consoles in the United States and to pay $90 million in damages to Immersion.
Immersion is a developer of digital touch technologies. They claimed that Sony violated one of its patents with its vibrating game controller. Sony said that it would appeal the decision. For the moment Sony will keep selling PlayStation consoles because the order will not go into effect before the appeal.
The patent infringement case covers the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, two game controllers and 47 games.
Source: Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8010054&type=technologyNews)
http://www.dvhardware.net/article4470.html
Nothing really to worry about, Sony has a fleet of lawyers, but if the court upholds this ruling after the appeal, we could see a drought of availability until Sony pays them off; this would seem likely as opposed to trying to rehab their own Dualshock controllers with their own design- which would take longer and cost more than just caving in and paying royalties and punitive damages.:roll: