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Sony Sued Again, Agere System Cries Patent Infringements |
Listed in: PS3, PSP Tags: Immersion Corporation, patent, playstation 3 updates, Sony, VAIO
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Looks like Sony lawyers are due back in court. After Immersion won more than $90 million for its Dual Shock patent suit last March, another company, Agere Systems is taking Sony through the legal circus.According to the semiconductor company, Sony committed patent infringements on eight products, including the PSP, PS2, PS3 (based on announced specs), VAIO computers, Handycams, Walkman players, Memory Stick Duos, and Location Free TV. The technology being contested are the LAN technology and tungsten plugs, among other things.
The lawsuit claims Sony willingly infringed on the patents and - here's the scary part - Agere wants to see Sony's books so it can determine how much money they can wring from the electronics giant. Sony denies the charges, naturally, and claims some of the patents issued by Agere omitted important information when it filed for them. Does that means some of the patents were filed properly but Sony used them anyway?
According to lawsuit-magnet Sony, it has the rights to use seven of the eight patents through a 1989 cross-licensing deal with AT&T and Lucent (whose microelectronics group became Agere Systems). Sony believes the patents in question are invalid and wants the case flushed down the judge's toilet. This is not the first time Agere sued Sony. By the way, Sony counter-sued Agere last month and demanded a jury trial.
Looks like a job tailored-made for Denny Crane.
Via Gamespot
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Sony, take a look at NINTENDO (or atleast microsoft!!!)
And start playing fairly !!!
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#3 if sony looks at nintendo or microsoft they will just steal their ideas too!
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(lets take the snes controller and make 2 shoulder buttons on each side... hmmm... now we need some more grip...
ah... the n64 has an analog stick... lets make 2 of them on our controller... so it is cooler! ...what, their controller is rumbling?
hm.... nintendo has some kind of motion sensing... lets do this too, but STAY CHEAP IN PRODUCTION!! So we can be more profitable)
2. xbox live?
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*rolls eyes*
Gues what, sony's exsact concept for the ps3 controller exsisted in a 3rd party ps1 controller long before the Wii ever exsisted on paper. Oh no nintendo gets credit first.
Not to mention the same concept exsisted in a microsoft controller for pc called the sidewinder.
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Oh yeah that wonderful DS & it's touch screen. Yeah no handheld before had one *rolls eyes*.
Pda, Cell phones, Zodiac & even the Gamecon (a portable gaming system) had touch screens to them. All long before the DS.
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And DS is--to my knowledge--the first portable system with two screens, one being a touchscreen. It's not the same thing as what you mentioned.
Just because an MP3 Player plays music doesn't mean it copied off of CD players. It's different, and more advanced, technology.
Besides, Nintendo came out with this stuff years after what you mentioned. Sony threw together that PooS controller like two months after Nintendo announced what the Wiimote does.
And even if you DO want to still count what Nintendo did as copying, it is still MUCH, MUCH, MUUUUCH less than what Sony copied from Nintendo. Pretty much everything standard or videogame related today originally came from or was popularized by Nintendo.
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Actualy not all of today's standars are entirly Nintendo. While nintendo has quite a few; sony, microsoft, sega & atari have also brought alot to this industry that we all use today. That is my problem. Everybody gives nintendo credit but nobody cares to remember what everbody else did.
Also the idea of duel screens is not original. Nintendo actualy gets credit for the original design wich came from the Game & Watch series developed by Gunpei (maker of the gameboy & virtual boy). The DS in a sense is a upgrade GBA unit and the combinding of the Gamewatch Duel Screen setup & a touch pad over the bottom screen. There is little inovative in the DS. It really is just a frankenstine that actualy took japan by storm. I know alot about the history of the DS since I am a comercial programmer and at 1 time had early prototypes before it even became the DS (still kick my self to this day for not hiding the pcb in my desk, nobody would have realised we still had one).
BULL3TPR00F,
Microsoft did not steal dos from apple. Microsoft bought licensing rights to QDOS from SCP then eventualy bought the exclusive rights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS
Fyi, GUI driven OS first used by MacOS was taken from Xerox (stupid move by Xerox to let them walk off with it). So not even Apple was original on that idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface
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What do you expect?
Oh let's NOT use something that's good in the hands, etc.
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None the less, Sony is a vital part of the electronics world. They push for new technology and strive to push the boarders of what we have today in electronics. If Sony goes bankrupt or anything along those lines, we are losing a great company that has been with us through years and years.
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If you want to talk about innovation in the handhelds look no farther than Sony. No other mainstream company produced such a powerful handheld system that has a strong capacity to compete with what had become a near Monopoly for Nintendo. If you still think Nintendo is innovative, look at the complete and utter lack of innovation in the entire gameboy line with it's molasses slow technical development. For over a decade they have been selling you virtually the same system with extremely minor technical development. Even the DS is generations behind the PSP in terms of technology, but if there is anything good that can be attributed to it's evolution you can thank that Sony for pushing the market into that direction. Rest assured, Nintendo will produce a more powerful handheld system next and it will be a lot more capable than the system they would have produced if it hadn't been for the competition Sony is providing.
Considing the strong brand power of Nintendo in the handheld market, Sony has to-date actually done an incredible job. It's only going to get better.
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this is stupid, 1st the immersion rumble, WTF, you think nobody but immersion could think of something as "hard to imagine" as rumble in a controller :| wtf, anyway now that sony and microsoft have paid to immersion ( yes, to the supid ass holes up who said M$ was better ), now they get sued for stupid and not even right things aout anything STUPID, this kinda remind me of Da Vinci Code being sued by a stupid GAY who lost anyway BUT his book became so popular because everyone wanted to know if yes or no he had copied... I suppose aeger wanna be more popular? anyway if 1 out of 8 is a real steal, then JUST PAY sony!! and you who are bashing sony FU** OFF!! you SHOULD know M$ stole immersion and a lot of others too, you should even know that Mr. Gates stole "windows" so shut the fuc* up! and nintendo is not better they stoled the wiiMote, the most important thing in the wii!!! they stole it to dreamcast:
http://mail.suneet.com/soniczone/news/archive/march99/proto/image9.jpg
http://mail.suneet.com/soniczone/news/archive/march99/proto/image8.jpg
so anyway everybody is stealer, the thing is : STOP TALKING ABOUT IT!!! NOBODY CARES
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his comments are all very true.
sony is an innovator that ushers in new ideas and technology.
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But don't think that Microsoft and Nintendo are somehow led by King Arthur and his Knights of the Round, because they aren't. I really hate you self-righteous @sses who eat and ***** all the slander and libel when your 'home team' does the exact same $hit, but you somehow 'conveniently overlook' it all. QUIT BEING TOOLS!
The lesson of the day: "No one can earn a million dollars honestly" - William Jennings Bryan
Kudos 'Police'
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Every major electroics company holds tens of thousands of patents that all the other companies have to use to build anything using technology invented in the last 20 years. If this company that's suing Sony is still producing something electronic at all, their products probably infringe on over a hundred sony patents.
That's why big companies cross-liscense, otherwise they couldn't produce anything at all! If this company isn't just a patent troll, and actually produces anything, Sony can stomp them into the ground. And they can, in return, stomp sony into the ground (unless they're much smaller). It's like nuclear cold war, mutually assured destruction.
It's time to get rid of the patent system, it only benefits patent trolls, lawyers and help the big companies get rid of smaller competition. And remember: the only thing worse than a state monopoly (which all americans seem to fear more than the apocalypse) is a private monopoly.
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oh, and SHUT UP to who's talking about "sony is not a good boy"!!! man this is harassing, people knowing nothing about buisness thinking everybody is clean and gentle!! wtf, open your eyes!!! and anyway only one out of 8 patents passed!
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if they're not american, and are in fact english then i'm a bit of a tit aren't i?! but i'm willing to take that risk.
i agree, 'business ethics' is an oxymoron.
i hate the idea that you can patent a semiconductor, or trademark 'you're fired' or patent an asymmetrical weight.
yeah, microsoft are good, they stole from immersion, but paid them off as immersion were only asking 40million usd. they wanted 600million usd from sony, so a 90million usd bill is an improvement, but still totally unjustified.
it's stupid, this bloody system of being able to patent any tiny little stupid idea... 'theft' is a fact of life, and if it means we get 3 good consoles all using the good ideas (it seems analogue sticks are just like joysticks but smaller, and they were around way before n64).
you'd seriously rather the days of the saturn, ps1 and n64 were back? with nintendo foolishly using cartridges, sony only have digital dpad, and sega (or perhaps the newbies, microsoft) not having any innovation whatsoever (apart from bsod!)
shut up about 'sony are lamers' etc, the whole legal issues with these patents are stupid and pointless... it is just small companies who can't be arsed to work for a living trying to milk larger companies for money. haven't microsoft been sued by multiple places with respect to windows and internet explorer etc? it always happens and i believe the system should change.
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Also Nintendo wasn't the first to use cartridges. They even made there console out of plastic. Nintendo copied alot of things from consoles before them and so did Sega.
Who cares really as long as it benefits you and me.
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So in 1989 he began new proceedings, this time in British courts, that dragged on and on, eating up his limited financial resources.
At one point, Mr. Pavel said, he owed his lawyer hundreds of thousands of dollars and was being followed by private detectives and countersued by Sony. "They had frozen all my assets, I couldn't use checks or credit cards," and the outlook for him was grim.
In 1996, the case was dismissed, leaving Mr. Pavel with more than $3 million in court costs to pay.
But he persisted, warning Sony that he would file new suits in every country where he had patented his invention, and in 2003, after another round of negotiations, the company agreed to settle out of court.
Mr. Pavel declined to say how much Sony was obliged to pay him, citing a confidentiality clause. But European press accounts said Mr. Pavel had received a cash settlement for damages in the low eight figures and was now also receiving royalties on some Walkman sales.
THESE days, Mr. Pavel divides his time between Italy and Brazil, and once again considers himself primarily a philosopher. But he is also using some of his money to develop an invention he calls a dreamkit, which he describes as a "hand-held, personal, multimedia, sense-extension device," and to indulge his unflagging interest in music.
Recently, he has been promoting the career of Altamiro Carrilho, a flutist whom he regards as the greatest living Brazilian musician. He is also financing a project that he describes as the complete discography of every record ever released in Brazil.
Some of his friends have suggested he might have a case against the manufacturers of MP3 players, reasoning that those devices are a direct descendant of the Walkman. Mr. Pavel said that while he saw a kinship, he was not eager to take on another long legal battle.
"I have known other inventors in similar predicaments and most of them become that story, which is the most tragic, sad and melancholic thing that can happen," he said. "Somebody becomes a lawsuit, he loses all interest in other things and deals only with the lawsuit. Nobody ever said I was obsessed. I kept my other interests alive, in philosophy and music and literature."
"I didn't have time to pursue them, but now I have reconquered my time," he continued. "So, no, I'm not interested anymore in patents or legal fights or anything like that. I don't want to be reduced to the label of being the inventor of the Walkman."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/international/americas/17pavel.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=c5f6f6d99731e2a5&ex=1292475600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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As for MS and Apple's DOS. What happened was this:
Once Apple got DOS working and all, and got into adding more things into it, Bill Gates came up with a supposed "plan". He decided to bascailly infiltrate Apple. He went to Steve Jobs, asked him if he could have a job working with him (he some how convinced him, and Steve Jobs agreed). He was hired somewhere in software development and was in charge of making sure there were no bugs or anything in DOS. this is when Gates took DOS home (for supposedly testing it as he was supposed to), and edditted a few codes here and there and slapped MS in front of it. Jobs was extremely stupid for even talking to Gates, and basically screwed himself over, but Gates did steal DOS.
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www.IBelieveInTheToothFairy.com
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They forget there customers are us ; ) and we should make them know this.
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I really hope closed mined individuals arnt in the jury when sony is in court with this, along with all the bandwagon sony bashers who convieniently forget what sony has given. nintendo nostalgia aside, microsoft hating aside, they could have done alot more with their consoles but have played it safe almost every time so far.
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