Judge rules PlayStation copyright case will go on
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Sony Computer Entertainment executives are pledging to appeal a judge's ruling that the company violated copyright law in the design of its popular PlayStation.
If the company loses that appeal, it will have to pay a $90 million fine and buy a license for the technology, or else stop selling the console, a force feedback control and some game titles.
U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken last week denied Sony's effort to dismiss the entire case, when she ruled that Sony had paid an "unreliable" witness $150,000 to give testimony that he had invented the technology first.