Microsoft and Immersion heading to court... again

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JinKazama @ Jun 19th 2007 4:10PM

Andy,

I understand your math but if I had a rock solid patent that was clearly infringed upon why would I put a contingency on my settlement? Basically you give me 26 mil and this goes away MS or you can risk spending 50 mil in lawyer fees and losing the tech.

Unless of course Immersion's patent wasn't as rock solid as claimed (which I suspect after doing a little googling). It seems MS got into bed with these guys seeing as Sony licensed rumble from logitech in 1998 to make the Dual Shock. Why not then sue logitech? I'm pretty sure they sued Sony and MS because they had deeper pockets, and this little kickback clause for MS is futher proof to me.

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