Text of Immersion Patent
Following the January decision against Sony in Immersion Corp’s lawsuit, which alleged that Sony had violated its patents on force-feedback mechanisms with the Dual Shock controller, Sony is appealing the decision to the Federal court.
AVG Patent ‘690 Explained
Jim Charne Explains the Implications of AVG Patent Suit to IDGA Readers.
Sources: IGDA’s Ask Jim
Yahoo Sues Xfire for Patent Infringement
Text of Yahoo’s Messenger Patent
Yahoo! sues Xfire for using in-game friend finding technology that allegedly infringes Yahoo’s Messenger patent 6,699,125.
Sources: CNet News | GameSpot | GamaSutra
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Immersion Corp. Wins Suit Against Sony
Text of Immersion Patent
Immersion Corp has won an $82 million patent infringement suit against Sony over two contested patents that Sony inadvertently violated in its Dual Shock controllers for PlayStation and PlayStation 2.
Sources: Gamasutra | Gamespot | EuroGamer | Immersion | BBC | Forbes | Washington Post
Game Industry Hit with AVG Graphics Patent ‘690 Suit
Text of ‘690 Patent
American Video Graphics, LP (“AVG”) has asserted that approximately thirty defendants in the gaming industry have infringed one its patent(s) that cover 3D panning and a zooming technology.
Sources: CNet | The Register pt 1 | The Register pt 2 | ars technica | ZDNet | USA Today | Planet GameCube | OnlyPunjab.com | IGDA Wiki Entry on ‘690 Topic
See also: IGDA’s call for ‘690 Prior Art
Creative Puts Aureal Out of its Misery
Litigation is business by other means, as Creative Technology’s $32 million takeover of moribund rival Aureal Semiconductor proves.
Sources: The Register | Tech Report
Related Posts:
- Creative Puts Aureal Out of its Misery (September 25, 2000)
- Aureal Defeats Creative Patent Infringement Case (December 13, 1999)
Nvidia and S3 Settle
Rival 3D chipmakers Nvidia and S3 have come to a settlement in their ongoing patent infringement battle. The two companies settled their differenced by entering into a seven year agreement to cross license a broad range of the companies respective patents. As part of the deal, both companies will drop their pending patent infringement suits.
Sources: Gamasutra | NVidia Press Release
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Aureal Defeats Creative Patent Infringement Case
Aureal has won its legal battle with arch-rival Creative technology when a US jury threw out Creative’s claim that Aureal Vortex sound processor chip violated Creative intellectual property.
Sources: Gamasutra | The Register
Related Posts:
- Creative Puts Aureal Out of its Misery (September 25, 2000)
- Aureal Defeats Creative Patent Infringement Case (December 13, 1999)