Immersion and Sony unit end litigation
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- Sony Computer Entertainment said it and  Immersion Corp.  agreed to end a patent litigation and  entered into an agreement to explore the inclusion of  Immersion's technology in Sony's PlayStation format products.
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A US jury found that Microsoft infringed audio patents held by the world's biggest software maker Alcatel-Lucent.   Microsoft has been ordered to pay Pounds 778m in damages, however the firm says it may appeal the ruling.   It says the verdict is unsupported by the law or the facts.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a settlement with two former employees of SpeechWorks International Inc. over claims they used faulty accounting practices to mislead investors. But a third former SpeechWorks employee plans to fight the charges in court.
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Blog: The software maker will cover the game console for up to three years for certain hardware failures. Microsoft says it is taking a charge of more than a billion dollars to cover the cost of the move, which followed an investigation into reports of problems
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Immersion filed a lawsuit against Sony Computer and Sony Computer Entertainment of America, claiming that the Japanese company used its game technology in the PlayStation game consoles without the company&#39;s approval.
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Up to a point, Lord Copper A US company has filed a lawsuits against both Nintendo and Sony, alleging that the controllers that go with the companiesâ games consoles trample over its intellectual property rights for console to controller connection.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million in penalties to settle lawsuits with two U.S. states over its controversial use of copy protection software. The settlements with the California and Texas attorneys general were announced Tuesday, seven months after theÂ music giant settled a class-action lawsuit in the matter. Sony's trouble began in late 2005, when a computer science researcher disclosed that Sony's had beenÂ shipping CDs with a copy protection program that used dangerous "rootkit" techniquesÂ to cloak itself after installation. Sony licensed this software from First 4 Internet Ltd., based in Banbury, U.K., but problems were also found with a second copy protection program used by Sony. That software, called Media Max, was developed by SunnComm International Inc. of Phoenix. Until Tuesday, Texas had been the only state with an outstanding lawsuit related to the rootkit fiasco, but other state's attorneys general and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission had also been looking into the matter, according to Jeff McGrath, deputy district attorney, with Los Angeles County, which participated in the California lawsuit. Sony has now reached tentative settlements with more than a dozen other states, including Massachusetts and Nebraska, as well as the FTC, McGrath said. The FTC declined to comment on the matter. The California lawsuit was both filed and settled on Tuesday. Sony's rootkit software shipped on an estimated 15 million CDs, bundled with music from artists such as Frank Sinatra, Celine Dion and Earl Scruggs. Consumers were offered refunds as part of the May class-action agreement, but Tuesday's settlements take additional steps by compensating them for damages caused by the rootkit code and "ensuring that this type of thing will not happen again," McGrath said. California and Texas consumers who believe that their computers were damaged by Sony's software can receive up to $175 to cover repair costs. The agreements also force Sony to submit any software it ships with music CDs to third-party audits for the next five years. Sony has created a Web site to address its rootkit settlement. That site is eventually expected to include instructions for consumers seeking refunds for their PC repairs. These refunds will, for example, compensate users who had their CD drives trashed when AOL's antispyware software tried to remove the First 4 files, said Paco Felici, a spokesman with the Texas Attorney General's office. Since the rootkit fiasco, Sony has stopped shipping digital rights management software with its music CDs. However, if it does add this capability to future CDs, it must make this clear to customers. "They're requiring disclosures to consumers before sale on the CD packaging," said Corynne McSherry, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "I think that's really crucial. Part of the whole background of the rootkit fiasco was that consumers just didn't know what they were getting into." A Sony spokesman declined to comment on investigations by the FTC and other states. "We are pleased to have reached agreements with the offices of the California and Texas Attorneys General," he said, reading from a statement.
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Sony Corp.'s Japanese music unit says it will no longer sell CDs with built-in copy protection, a technology it had been pushing for two years.
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With little more than a month left for JDA Software Group Inc. to close on its $100 million acquisition of QRS Corp., QRS pulled the plug on the deal in favor of a $116 million acquisition by Inovis International Inc.
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NEW YORK (Kyodo) A group of investors led by Sony Corp. said Thursday it has finalized a $4.9 billion acquisition deal with Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
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Legal fees loom as ImClone loses a patent dispute.
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The pharmaceutical's settlement ends a government probe.
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A Chinese firm making iPods for Apple Computer Incorporated has dropped its defamation lawsuit against two journalists who accused the company of mistreating workers.
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT    COSTA MESA, Calif.  -- Few people took notice when Sony Electronics Inc...
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- Qwest Communications International Inc  said it settled a patent lawsuit with Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing L.P. and would pay an undisclosed sum for a nonexclusive license for interactive voice applications patented by Katz.
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TOKYO -- Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that they have signed a licensing agreement, but the deal won&#39;t cover the Asian electronic companies&#39; key technologies.
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Sony is facing another patent infringement suit, this time involving its Blu-ray high definition disc technology.