March 19, 2004
Wisconsin Settles Playstation2 Lawsuit
The organization that manages patents for the University of Wisconsin at Madison has settled its patent-infringement lawsuit against Sony and Toshiba over a chip used in the PlayStation2 video-game system. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation sued the two companies in October. It alleged that the game system's main chip, known as the Emotion Engine, infringed on a 1986 patent on a design for a circuit that was invented by John D. Wiley,
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