Immersion to Pay Microsoft $20.75 Mln
If this doesn’t teach companies to be wary of making deals with Microsoft’s legal team when they think they have the Redmond software giant over a barrel…we don’t know what will.
Here we go: Back in 2002, haptics developer Immersion filed a lawsuit against both Microsoft and Sony, alleging that the biofeedback tech—a.k.a. rumble—in PlayStation and Xbox controllers violated Immersion patents. Microsoft settled for $26 million in 2003. End of story, right? Oh, no.
It seems that Microsoft’s attorneys, eyeing the size of a potential Immersion payoff from Sony—which, you may recall, utterly dominated the console market in 2003—slipped a little
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