Sony Sued For Patent Infringment
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<div class="IPBDescription">Let's try a lighter topic...</div> Sony's been ordered to pay $90.7 Million in damages of patent infringment of feedback hardware, presumably for the duel shock control. Moreover, courts have ordered Sony to cease sales of PS2's in the U.S. This is the whole package: systems, controllers, and games that violate the patent. That doesn't leave much left to play...
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To me it sounds like company A is trying to get a pattent on "vibration" - where company B tried to make a controler that "shakes".
I mean, honesly, shaking controllers is a "next step" in the evolution of hand held input divices. So long as the mechanizm for shaking is different, I'm not sure that a pattent has been infringed on. If that isn't the case, then those in the adult paraphanalia industry should sue both companies...
In other news, muslims are sueing the USA for every capitol building for patent infringement on the "dome" building structure. In order to rectify the situation, all archetecture and building must cease until we pay... 1 billion dollars!