Microsoft and Immersion heading to court... again

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andy @ Jun 19th 2007 3:31PM

Last I checked, we live in America where you're free to make any contract/licensing you want as long as it is not for an illegal purpose.

It's pretty simple really. MS said "we'll give you 25mil for the exclusive rights to rumble. We don't care that Nintendo makes consoles, but Sony is after our demographic. So, for an exclusive license, we'll give you 25 mil, but if you allow sony in any way to add this patented feature to their devices, then it's not an exclusive license and you owe us 15 mil because you didn't give us the exclusivity you promised us."

So, if you're immersion, the price to Sony is something in excess of 15mil. Anything less is a loss to Immersion, anything in excess is worth breaking MS's exclusive license and paying them their liquidated damages of 15 mil.

It's math, and it's really not that hard.

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