Sony Ordered to Halt PlayStation Sales
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James Joyner | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
Sony has been ordered to stop selling its popular PlayStation video games after losing a major patent infringement case.
Sony Ordered to Halt PlayStation Sales (Reuters)
Sony Corp. said on Monday it was ordered by a U.S. court to halt sales of its blockbuster PlayStation consoles in the United States and pay $90 million in damages to a California tech company, Immersion Corp., whose shares jumped more then 5 percent. Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony’s gaming unit, said it would appeal the decision by a California federal court in the patent infringement case.
For the time being, Sony will keep selling PlayStations as the order â which covers the PlayStation and PlayStation 2, two game controllers and 47 software titles â will not go into effect before the appeal, an SCE spokeswoman said. Sony will be paying compulsory license fees to Immersion, she added.
Wow.
Update: Typo in original corrected.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia.
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