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PSP Patent Suit Costs Sony

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By Kris Graft

November 19, 2008

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A jury this week found that Sony willfully infringed on a patent, a ruling that will cost the PlayStation house $18.5 million.

An East Texas federal jury said Sony willfully infringed on Agere Systems' patent 5,670,730, "Data Protocol and Method for Segmenting Memory for a Music Chip."

The jury said Sony's mylo Personal Communicator, Network Walkman audio players and the PlayStation Portable all infringed on the patent.

Agere Systems originally filed the complaint in 2006.

Sony had filed a counterclaim, stating that the patent did not "comply with one or more of the conditions and requirements of the patent laws of the United States," the Tyler Morning Telegraph reported.

that badwofl's picture
On November 23rd that badwofl said:

so when you say travasty, dont you remember why there was no dual shock on the original PS3 controllers?

savagehenry's picture
On November 21st savagehenry said:

This is a travasty :( Sony should just boycote the judgement and the payment of damages. It's surely must be some sort or a joke :( bad news indeed

AaronMC's picture
On November 20th AaronMC said:

This one is also good.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080620/1324141465.shtml

AaronMC's picture
On November 20th AaronMC said:

Big friggin' surprise! East Texas!

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071005/020748.shtml

They say all that I could.