Sony gets $18.5M wrist slap for PSP patent infringement

Sony gets $18.5M wrist slap for PSP patent infringement: "The patent dispute between Agere Systems (now a part of LSI Electronics) and Sony came to an end today, with Agere emerging as the victor. Sony must now cough up $18.5 million as a penalty for infringing upon an Agere patent, 5,670,730 (hereafter referred to as the '730 patent.) When Agere sued Sony for patent infringement in March of 2006, it alleged that the larger company had violated eight of its patents, and demanded compensation for all of them."