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PlayStation Sales Halted?
Narf Narf writes "According to Japan Today, the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, has ordered Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and its U.S. unit to pay $90.7 million in damages to Immersion Corp. for patent infringement over controllers used with PlayStation game consoles. In the ruling handed down Thursday, the federal court also ordered Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Entertainment America Inc. to stop selling the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 game consoles using Dualshock controllers as well as more than 40 game software products." Update: 03/28 04:51 GMT by Z : ...which was followed immediately by an injunction, to allow Sony time for an appeal, and a compulsory licensing agreement.
Does this mean that vibrators are now infringing on their patent? They vibrate, and they are used in various games I play.
Muaha.
Yeah I bet that was a Dualshock.
Shhhhhhhhhh!
jeez why don't you just hold a sign up for them?
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...and it's probably a RPG.
My car vibrates depending on road conditions and engine RPM,
Would this not be "vibration for tactile feadback"? it's 15years old, so I bet it's prior art....
Less look fast, more go fast.
I think it's time to invent Godwin's law part II, "any conversation held long enought in Slashdot will inevitably end with someone comparing the whole matter to SCO or Microsoft, and it will mark the end of the conversation for reasonable people"
Open letter to all Slashdotters.
Keep your shirts on please.
Sincerly,
The Management.
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...and let me guess, you're playing while posting on /. with your keyboard resting on the steering wheel, right? ;)
the image of thousands of pasty man-boobs flopping around in the pale flicker of computer monitors has scarred me for life. thanks.
sounds like its gonna cost sony about as much as I throw out the car window as i pass by hookers
$90.7 million dollars???
Pardon me, but do you mind if I pretend to be a hooker while you drive by?
I actually have a patent on a modification to 3D-glasses...
But I never approached any company with it; it's possible side effect of causing seizures in small children doesn't seem particularly profitable.
Did /. get proper permission to use the dual-shock controller icon on the front page?
"Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless."
What about the even bigger news that 'Lexar Lawsuit' has been named as the villain in the upcoming Superman movie?
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Holy crap, if only the Sony lawyers had known that, you should really let them know.
They're a multi-billion dollar international company. I'm sure that they had a competent lawyer, who attempted to get the patent ruled invalid.
You would think so, but these are the same guys who came up with memory stick.
Life is too short to proofread.
For $90.7m, I'd do more than just pretend.
"You mean they patented an unbalanced, rotating mass and they got millions for it?"
Just ask Ford.
Of course I'm at work, why else would I be reading slashdot?