Sony ordered to pay $90.7 mil. in patent infringement suit

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

They already did sue MS and settled out of court.


Seeing as the patent dates to 2001, years after the release of the Dual Shock, that seems pretty impossible. The patent wasn't even filed until 2000. This smells like horseshit to me.

EDIT: Apparently the patents cited in the suits are "continuations" of a prior patent, but even the original patent was filed in April, 1998, well after the release of the original Dual Shock.

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and all i said was "during the time of the ps1" did i not? ;)

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

Sony will probably end up paying the money like Sega did for their infringement suit in the 16-bit era.

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You sure that wasn't nintendo? If I'm mistaken, I'm unfamilar with what the case was.

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Originally Posted by voltz

They can go after makers of PC controllers too because they keep on sucking sony's balls in the design department and not making real sticks or 6-button pads like they're supposed to.

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Usb to xbox adapter + Controler S = Problem solved.

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Originally Posted by voltz

You sure that wasn't nintendo? If I'm mistaken, I'm unfamilar with what the case was.

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It was both. Atari also. All got sued by Magnavox who basically owned the patent on the technology used to display a pixel through an RF signal. That's why systems stopped coming with RF adapters with later runs of the Genesis and SNES.

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl...19206&from=rss
Same article quoted as in the first post, but SlashDot added something about Sony restricting sales of their Playstation consoles. MEthinks I'll buy that $50 PSone to go with my screen sooner rather than later.

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Originally Posted by ChaoofNee

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl...19206&from=rss
Same article quoted as in the first post, but SlashDot added something about Sony restricting sales of their Playstation consoles. MEthinks I'll buy that $50 PSone to go with my screen sooner rather than later.

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That link also states the Sony has lost the appeal, but the court honored an injunction, so that Sony could prepare for an appeal. :confused:

Click on injunction.

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It appears that court record states otherwise. Thus the injunction is still in effect.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

These seems stupid to me. It's basially a patent on vibro-tactile feedback, but the patent post-dates the N64 Rumble pack by about 4 years.

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the way Nintendo does the rumble and the way everyone else is doing it is different Nintendo has their own patent on how to make controllers rumble

Immersion has the other patent which Sony and Microsoft did it the Immersion way, they allready sued Microsoft and won, if MS with its huge amounts of cash didnt appeal their way out of it I doubt Sony will

this is sony's own fault for not checking to see if their were patents on everything they did thus now they have to pay

they need to suck it up and just pay they fucked up end of case

One thing they like to call $90 mil is damages, pay damages for what!??

They should retitle that to extortion money, just to officially state for the record. Far as I'm concerned, patents shouldn't be allowed to corner a market for any obvious reason other then to protect a product from which the idea was "directly" copied.

Somebody in congress with at least more then 3 working braincells needs to rewrite the system on those fuckers, cause all it's being used for these days is bait.

who the fuck is Immersion Corp?

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Originally Posted by voltz

Far as I'm concerned, patents shouldn't be allowed to corner a market for any obvious reason other then to protect a product from which the idea was "directly" copied.

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AND thats WHAT'S happening in this case

that is why sony lost

the exact way Sony is doing their force feedback and vibrations in the controler is exactly what Immersion has pattented, MS made the same mistake and paid for it

Nintendo went ahead and designed their own way of doing rumble thus they didnt get sued and dont have to pay liscencing fees

this is pretty black and white

just cause it happened to Sony doesn't make it any less so

Sony fucked up now they have to pay like everyone else for fucking up

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Originally Posted by marwan

who the fuck is Immersion Corp?

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a company that designed a way to do force feedback and rumble in controllers and other devices and patented this back in the 90's if you look on most 3rd party controllers and computer devices with force feedback (like steering wheels and such for consoles and PC) you will see powered by immersion on it