Sony loses patent lawsuit; have to pay 1 ...

http://kotaku.com/5093936/sony-lose-patent-lawsuit-have-to-cough-up-18-millionWaaaay back in 2006, Agere Systems sued Sony. Said that the PSP (and some other Sony devices) infringed on their patent for a ''wireless local area network apparatus''. A key difference in this and other cases we see like this is that Agere aren't patent trolls: they're a proper tech company, and the judge found in Agere's favour, stating that Sony's infrigements were ''wilful''. Meaning Sony knew full well that they were infringing on someone else's patents, bu went ahead and infringed on them anyway. For their troubles, the Japanese mega-company must now pay Agere a cool $18.5 million.Not sure if it has been posted yet but I checked back a couple pages and didn't see it. Also sorry if oldAnyway this can't be good for any company with the state of the economy; the US economy is slowly effecting other countries too since we are such I high source of imports from foreign countries. Sony loses patent lawsuit; have to pay 1 ...
well.... 18.5 isn't really all that much for sonySony loses patent lawsuit; have to pay 1 ...
can sony even afford playing 18 million now?
[QUOTE=''st1ka'']well.... 18.5 isn't really all that much for sony[/QUOTE]These days every cent hurts, they say... :P
[QUOTE=''st1ka'']well.... 18.5 isn't really all that much for sony[/QUOTE]This is true, but this it will mostly come out of the gaming division it could hurt that division pretty bad. They were struggling last quarter in that division as far as I remember. Guess we will see when the next fiscal quarter is done and see how it effected them if at all.
[QUOTE=''st1ka'']well.... 18.5 isn't really all that much for sony[/QUOTE] that's still a pretty pennie
thats not alot the time they put spyware in their devices they paid alot more
Not that much.
I believe stuff like this happens all the time.
Im sure they will have a spare 18 mil in change down the back of the couch somewhere.
The fact that they filed this suit in Texas is proof that it's a textbook case of patent squatting. The judges there don't know crap about technology, which is why you see so many people with vague patents filing lawsuits there.I'm all for protecting intellectual property. However, I think that there also needs to be protection against vague patents that prevent people from creating products without getting chased by predatory lawyers. Seriously, I can write a file to a memory stick with headers USING MY FREAKING PC, so are these baboons going to try and sue me, too? Maybe I should put a patent on peeing on trees, so that no-one can pee on a tree unless they buy the patent for my tree-side toilet kit.
18.5 mill is nothing.Sony just needs to take out its other wallet like movies,Laptops earning or the tons of other things they sell
Pocket change.However I must question the motives behind this lawsuit. Why did they wait 2 years after the PSP launched to file a suit? And did this company ever develop their patented device? This seems like patent squatting to me even if its from a respected and well established company. In fact, the more established the company is the less surprising it becomes because the big boys play dirtier than anyone. :P

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