Sony loses patent infringement lawsuit, fined $18.5 million
*Cheesy advisory message voice* Are you out of money? Is your bank account dry? Then patent any old thing you can think of, then sue a video game company!
After a two-year court battle, Agere Systems won its patent infringement lawsuit against Sony, who was forced to pay the amount of US$ 18.5 million for their tech that have “wireless local area network apparatus.” Details after the link.
*Cheesy advisory message voice* Are you out of money? Is your bank account dry? Then patent any old thing you can think of, then sue a video game company!
After a two-year court battle, Agere Systems won its patent infringement lawsuit against Sony, who was forced to pay the amount of US$ 18.5 million.
The patent involves “wireless local area network apparatus.” How vague. That could describe my local Internet bar. As it is, it seems that Sony is being sued for the tech as it applies to some of their devices, like the mylo and the PSP.
It wasn’t that long ago that Nintendo was also sued for a vaguely described patent, and lost US$ 21 million for it. Another company is trying to milk them for the tech in the Wiimote.
Via PSP Fanboy