Sony ordered to pay inventor ¥5 million

Sony ordered to pay inventor ¥5 million

I choose this news, because It is a problem of Sony corparation, Big corparation of Japan. So I want to know about the news about Sony. My family uses many products from Sony. Espacialy, My laptop that from Sony was broken last week.

The high court ordered Sony Corparation to pay a former employee about ¥5.1 million for inventing a technology used in the PlayStation , on the other hand a lower court rejected his demand.

Hidehiro Kume, 58 years old, wanted ¥100 million for his invention of a small card pickup used to play and record data on card for the popular game sold through 2003.

"I think the court for identifying some of my contributions to the company," Kume told a news conference. "But the company should have appreciated my contributions when I was an employee."

A Sony public relations official said the ruling regret and the company will analyze it before decide what to do.

In my opinion, I think that Sony should redeem money for the formor emproyee, Hidehiro Kume, because he did manys contributions to Sony when he was an employee.
And The game was sucessful invention and popular.