San Jose's Immersion Corp., purveyor of all things force feedback, said Tuesday that it will pay Microsoft $21 million to settle litigation that cropped up in June last year, a legal web which also involved Sony.
Now that Microsoft and Immersion have come to terms, Immersion will become part of Microsoft's Certified Partner Program.
Immersion's settlement will be a one-time payment for the full amount. Additional terms of the settlement are confidential.
Immersion had sued Microsoft for patent infringement in 2002, accusing the software giant of using its vibration technology in game controllers without permission. The two companies supposedly settled out of court in 2003.
But the two firms did not see eye-to-eye on one of the terms of the settlement agreement, bringing Microsoft to sue the company. Immersion allegedly agreed to give Microsoft a cut of the bounty if the force feedback company settled its controller suit with Sony, which was also being sued by Immersion.
When Sony and Immersion settled for $121 million in 2007, Microsoft came knocking for its purported share, suing the company. Immersion said it wasn't obligated to pay Microsoft, and filed a counterclaim.
Now it appears the dispute is truly in the past. "We are pleased to resolve our outstanding dispute with Microsoft and to put this litigation behind us," said Immersion CEO Clent Richardson in a statement.
Boo, not fair... they sent my original one back to me.
Guess I'll have to try and brick it again before the three years is up.
Hey I'm only on my second PS3 (sold the first one) but when I put in a normal dvd (i.e not a bluray disk) it sounds like its about to blow up or take off, I did ring Sony but apparently thats normal!
Boo, not fair... they sent my original one back to me.
Guess I'll have to try and brick it again before the three years is up.
Hey I'm only on my second PS3 (sold the first one) but when I put in a normal dvd (i.e not a bluray disk) it sounds like its about to blow up or take off, I did ring Sony but apparently thats normal!
then i guess mine is abnormal....mine is quiet as a mouse
mine did stop playing all kind of discs after an update once,so i reformatted my HDD(lost a lot of crap) and it worked fine after,and i redownloaded the updates
360,my launch machine finally gave way in April(about two weeks before GTA4),i got my 360 back a week later...hopefully i will be okay now
the Wii,if it gets used(i.e taken out of the wardrobe)when i try to go onto the internet or the wiishop thing,i get a black screen 75% of the time and it gets stuck like that and i have to disconnect the power supply and try again
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...either that or an impromptu game of Twister.
