144 0 Kommentare Immersion Files Complaint Against Meta Platforms / Facebook With U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Immersion Corporation (NASDAQ: IMMR), the leading developer and provider of technologies for haptics, today announced that it has filed a complaint against Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.) in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.

The complaint alleges that Meta’s augmented and virtual reality (“AR/VR”) systems, including the Meta Quest 2, infringe six Immersion patents that cover various uses of haptic effects in connection with such AR/VR systems. Immersion is seeking to enjoin Meta from further infringement and to recover a reasonable royalty for such infringement.

“Immersion and its employees have worked diligently for almost 30 years to invent innovative haptic technologies that allow people to use their sense of touch to engage with products and experience the digital world around them. Our intellectual property is relevant to many of the most important and cutting-edge ways in which haptic technology is and can be deployed, and, in the case of AR/VR experiences, haptics is crucial to an immersive user experience,” said Francis Jose, CEO and General Counsel.

“While we are pleased to see that Meta recognizes the value of haptics and has adopted our haptic technology in its AR/VR systems as part of its multi-billion dollar effort to create the metaverse and generate revenue streams through the sales of hardware, games and other virtual assets, and advertisements, it is important for us to protect our business against infringement of our intellectual property to preserve the investments that we have made in our technology,” added Mr. Jose. “We must ensure that our intellectual property is recognized as a necessary feature in the emerging AR/VR/metaverse market, even when litigation becomes necessary.”

The complaint against Meta asserts infringement of the following patents:

U.S. Patent No. 8,469,806: “System and method for providing complex haptic stimulation during input of control gestures, and relating to control of virtual equipment”
U.S. Patent No. 8,896,524: “Context-dependent haptic confirmation system”
U.S. Patent No. 9,727,217: “Haptically enhanced interactivity with interactive content”
U.S. Patent No. 10,248,298: “Haptically enhanced interactivity with interactive content”
U.S. Patent No. 10,269,222: “System with wearable device and haptic output device”
U.S. Patent No. 10,664,143: “Haptically enhanced interactivity with interactive content”