http://google.com/patents/about?id=SHnOAAAAEBAJ&dq=7,701,835

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=QdbJAAAAEBAJ&dq=7,577,080

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=8mbVAAAAEBAJ&dq=7,619,961

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=5xXSAAAAEBAJ&dq=7,756,398

Let me know how vague you think these are - to the best of my knowledge, hardware patents are actually anything but vague. But I don't know anything about patents.

Perhaps Sony should take some lawyers of Geohotz case and put them to use here?

They'll settle whether they're vague or not IMO.

...LG PS3's... *brrrrrrrrrr*

Damn. O_O

I did not expect that!

It was sarcasm, see the sad face. RIP

Royalties hold more profit and stability in them than a lump sum does... I say royalities.

2011 is a good year for gamers, a challenging one for Sony.

The abstracts seem incredibly wide in range. The specifics I will have to spend more time looking at to see specifically, but it wouldn't surprise me. The patent office has not caught up to the electronic age. You can leave out almost all the specifics and still get the patent. This is why companies go out of their way to patent everything they can think of and make a living off the lawsuits that follow.

Edit: Or I am a complete tard. I am, naturally, talking about the US patent office which has absolutely no impact on this case. I have heard similar things from Europe but have no first hand knowledge.

Wow, didn't think it would go this far. Let's see what Sony do, will they try and find another patent infringment or accept defeat

Sony started this whole mess too, I am sure they'll settle before they ran out of console.

shocking isn't it? man this is bad.