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Sony Ordered to Pay For Dual Shock Tech

Posted by Zonk on from the oh-that-was-yours? dept.

GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that a ruling against the Japanese software giant has been handed down in the case of Immersion vs. Sony. Immersion sued the company over the force feedback effect experienced in the dual-shock controller, which it has a patent on. From the article: "Now a Californian district court has ordered Sony to pay a 1.37 per cent license fee based on sales of the PlayStation console and of the named videogames, to be paid quarterly effective from July 1st."

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  1. My other company's exp... by Taulin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First...This is bad. Patents are great, but did this company actually make these products that use their patent? Patents should be like trademarks, in which you actually have to use it, and produce it, with PROOF, to keep it. Terrible news.