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Sony ordered to pay $90.7 mil. in patent infringement suit

Steven Parker CEO - Neowin.net Neowin @aSteveParker · Mar 27, 2005 04:37 EST · Hot! with 1 comment

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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. (Kyodo News)

View: Feb 15th Press release at Immersion Web Site