From Suit to Settlement: Sony & 3M Break Land Speed Record
(photo by Eole)
The fact of settlement by way of license agreements between BIG PATENT is no surprise, but rarely does a suit filed in March of year One (3M Sues Sony on March 8) get settled by July of Year One (3M Settles with Sony on July 30).
That's four months, folks -- barely enough time for the junior associates to pull the canned patent infringement interrogatories out of the computer and begin tinkering with the details, let alone to negotiate a deal whereby "Sony Corporation and Sony Electronics [become] 'licensed sources of batteries containing 3M's cathode technology.'"
We don't know how they did it, but we LIKE IT, WE LIKE IT.
