in Sony's case it seems like once bitten twice shy, I wonder if they had a clause inserted in there payout like MS did in regards to Sony winning /losing it case over dual shock patents.

 I wouldn't be surprised if Sony's payout was in the ballpark of what MS's legal bill ended up.

sadly, its more than just the end sum for sony and microsoft.   this also helps make sony look like easy pickings to other patent trolls out there and provides these particular trolls with money to fund their other schemes.

I'm sorry man.

That's terrible. What was his sentence?

He was sentenced  3 months after the accident to 6 months prison and 7 years loss of licence. At the time in my State ,when you got a jail term you automatically got 1/3rd taken off for good behaviour plus you could apply for parole after 50% of your sentence  the trouble being  the 50%  of sentence was calculated  as being what remained after your good behaviour  so you  could apply for parole after completing 1/3rd of your sentence so if you got a 3 year sentence you could be out in 12months, another problem was the 1/3rd off for good behaviour was automatically deducted, but if you say assaulted a guard etc you might go to court and receive a 3 month addition to your sentence ( average for prison guard assaults ) but they never revoked  the good behaviour it was seen as part of your day one sentence and a right rather than the carrot it was intended to be and to rub salt into the wound the 3 month's extra would also get a 3rd cut off it .

in his case he served 4 months

He got 4 months!?

What he did was as good as murder, that is a pathetic sentence.

Yep ,but  he seemed repentant and i don't think serving a longer term in his case would have helped him and more importantly his family and mine , still it always seems to be about the criminal and not the victim and this can and does lead to "Poor me I'm a victim too" ,i have seen cases where the lawyer or client have had the gall to say that they are the real victim here ,no remorse no repentance it's all about them, still the past is the past and i can't change it.

Talking about the law, on a side note. When the ambulance arrived  at the scene my wife was dead but her sister was barley alive at that point but they took my wife in the first ambulance and her sister waited another 10-15 minutes for the second ambulance to arrive,when I quizzed them about this later , Why my sister in-law on the brink didn't get priority they said in cases of multiple accident patients policy stated that you took the most critical patient and that was  my wife even though she was already deceased .

Even sadder is the same six years it takes to settle a fatal car accident claim when the driver drunk at the time runs down two females at a bus stop while they waited to catch a bus  early morning , one being my wife dies and the other her sister spends 3 months in hospital with multiple fractures to her legs, a broken pelvis broken left arm, broken jaw all her front teeth removed two large rods inserted to support her legs eventually removed and he pleaded guilty, the Insurer finally made a settlement six years latter on the front step of the court house the day of the trial, according to my sister in laws Lawyer the amount was pretty much what she would have been awarded if it went to judgment and the Insurer was always going to pay up so why six years ?.

Yep ,but  he seemed repentant and i don't think serving a longer term in his case would have helped him and more importantly his family and mine , still it always seems to be about the criminal and not the victim and this can and does lead to "Poor me I'm a victim too" ,i have seen cases where the lawyer or client have had the gall to say that they are the real victim here ,no remorse no repentance it's all about them, still the past is the past and i can't change it.

Talking about the law, on a side note. When the ambulance arrived  at the scene my wife was dead but her sister was barley alive at that point but they took my wife in the first ambulance and her sister waited another 10-15 minutes for the second ambulance to arrive,when I quizzed them about this later , Why my sister in-law on the brink didn't get priority they said in cases of multiple accident patients policy stated that you took the most critical patient and that was  my wife even though she was already deceased .