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Microsoft and Immersion Corporation have settled their long dispute over force feedback technology, with Immersion making a one-time payment of $20.75 million to the console manufacturer. At that time, Immersion claimed copyright infringement on the part of
both Microsoft and Sony for technology used in the manufacturers'
console controllers.
Microsoft agreed to a $26 million settlement in 2003, and Sony
eventually settled for $121 million in 2007. Since June of that year,
Microsoft and Immersion have been locked in a lawsuit, after Microsoft
took issue with the terms of the Sony settlement, believing it was
entitled to a share of that sum.
Today's resolution, the remaining terms of which remain confidential, appears to close the books on the matter.
Said Immersion president and CEO Clent Richardson in a statement today,
"We are pleased to resolve our outstanding dispute with Microsoft and
to put this litigation behind us."
In a separate statement, an Immersion representative indicated that the
comnany looks forward to working with Microsoft "on adoption of its
haptic technologies."