Court Rules Against Riaa Member
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 4:42 pm
Seems Sony think its ok to infringe on other folks technology while complaing as an RIAA member that they are being stolen from, talk about hypocrisy 
http://news.com.com/Sony+to+challenge+b ... tag=st.pop
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Judge Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court for Northern California issued the order late last week in a patent infringement case filed against Sony Computer Entertainment by Immersion, a San Jose, Calif.-based developer of "haptics" technology. Among other applications, the technology can generate force feedback in games so that the game controller rattles in response to events during play.
Immersion claims that Sony's implementation of force feedback in its PlayStation 2 and the original PlayStation consoles infringes on its patents. Microsoft paid the California company $26 million two years ago to settle similar claims regarding its PC joysticks and other products.