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Microsoft Settles With Immersion Over Haptic Patent

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the wheels-greased-with-cash dept.

Dolly_Llama writes "Immersion settled their lawsuit against Microsoft over the use of Haptic vibration technology in the XBox controllers. Microsoft paid Immersion $26M to settle and to license Immersion's haptic patents. Immersion has a similar lawsuit still pending with Sony."

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  1. Repetitive Haptic Injury? by quinkin · · Score: 3, Funny
    So at least we know who to blame now for the long term damage caused by vibrating console controls...

    Q.

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    1. Re:Repetitive Haptic Injury? by quinkin · · Score: 4, Funny
      Well thats what my wife keeps saying is causing her sore wrists.....

      Hey wait....

      Q. :)

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  2. Anybody else remember... by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... when Sony was sued by ... uh.. I think it was Atari over vibration inside of controllers? Something about Nintendo not getting sued because the N64's vibration feature was a peripheral and not built into the controller.

    This ring a bell with anybody? Now I'm kinda curious what happened.

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  3. Yet another strategic cave-in on a patent dispute by PenguinOpus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Immersion seems more likely to have a strong patent in haptic than SCO has any claims on Linux, but...

    This seems like a strategic settlement by Microsoft to punish Sony. Microsoft paying the settlement to Immersion gives Immersion fuel to feed its lawyers in their continued attack on Sony. You can be sure that when Sony settles or is taken to court the total will be $260M, not $26M.

  4. Why didn't MS just buy them? by mhesseltine · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then, they would be the ones collecting royalties from SONY.

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