Sony Interactive Entertainment and Lenovo Announce Design Patent License Agreement for Virtual Reality Headsets

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) and Lenovo announced they have signed a two-year patent license agreement.  The agreement provides Lenovo with a license to use SIE’s patented PlayStation®VR (PS VR) industrial design for the Lenovo Mirage Solo virtual reality headset.

AiThority Interview Insights: AiThority Interview with Elliott Jobe, Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder at Infinite Reality

“We are pleased to announce that we have licensed the PS VR headset design to Lenovo,” said Riley Russell, Chief Legal Officer at SIE. “The industrial design for PS VR has been widely acclaimed, and that was the result of years of hard work by PlayStation engineers.  This agreement with Lenovo is a testament to the quality of PS VR’s design, as well as SIE’s commitment to creating great virtual reality experiences and helping the VR industry expand.”

“Lenovo is pleased to partner with Sony,” said Yao Li, vice president of Lenovo Consumer Tablets and Smart Devices Product and Business Management. “The preeminence of the PS VR design is obvious, and This agreement will allow us to work together to greatly enhance the design sophistication and appeal of the rapidly expanding VR field, and is an outstanding example of how great consumer brands in the VR industry can work together to benefit the consumer VR market.”

Read More about AiThority Interview: AiThority Interview with Dorian Selz, Co-Founder & CEO at Squirro

Recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is responsible for the PlayStation® brand and family of products and services.  PlayStation has delivered innovation to the market since the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994.  The PlayStation family of products and services include PlayStation4, PlayStationVR, PlayStationVita, PlayStation3, PlayStationStore, PlayStationPlus, PlayStationVideo, PlayStationMusic, PlayStationNow, PlayStationVue and acclaimed PlayStation software titles from SIE Worldwide Studios.  Headquartered in San Mateo, California, SIE is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation and has global functions in California, London and Tokyo.

Lenovo is a US$45 billion Fortune Global 500 company and a global technology leader in driving Intelligent Transformation through smart devices and infrastructure that create the best user experience. Lenovo manufactures one of the world’s widest portfolios of connected products, including smartphones (Motorola), tablets, PCs (ThinkPad, Yoga, Lenovo Legion) and workstations as well as AR/VR devices and smart home/office solutions. Lenovo’s data center solutions (ThinkSystem, ThinkAgile) are creating the capacity and computing power for the connections that are changing business and society. Lenovo works to inspire the difference in everyone and build a smarter future where everyone thrives.

 Latest AiThority Interview Insights : AiThority Interview with James Rubin, Product Manager at Google

 [To share your insights with us, please write to sghosh@martechseries.com]