A3D ( Aureal 3-Dimensional ) was a technology developed by Aureal Semiconductor for use in their Vortex line of PC sound chips to deliver three-dimensional sound through headphones, two or even four speakers.

Creative Labs sued Aureal for patent infringement in March 1998, and Aureal countersued for patent infringement and deceptive trade practices.

Many modern sound cards and PC games incorporated A3D via license from Aureal.

However, the cost of the legal battle caused Aureal's investors to cease funding operations, forcing Aureal into bankruptcy.

EAX displaced the alternative A3D ( Aureal 3-Dimensional ) in 2001.

In 1997, LucasArts released a patch ( update 1. 1 ) to add Glide and Aureal A3D, and another one to add Direct3D compatibility to the game in 2001, complementing the existing software rendering support.

The greatly anticipated S3 Savage 2000 was a failure, and the excitedly growing 3D sound card market nearly fell apart with the loss of Aureal Semiconductor.

The Diamond Monster Sound MX300 was based on the Vortex2 audio ASIC from Aureal Semiconductor.

Utilizing the then state-of-the-art Aureal A3D 2. 0 3D audio API, the MX300 was capable of producing startlingly immersive audio.

Unfortunately Aureal had gone into bankruptcy and was dissolved so their next-generation chips never saw the light of day.

Armstrong won the first round of the lawsuit, lost the second, and stalemated in a third.

The FSTA filed an amicus curiae in support of CBC, also arguing that if MLBAM won the lawsuit it would have a dramatic impact on the industry, which was largely ignored by the major sports leagues for years while a number of smaller entrepreneurs grew it into a multi-billion dollar industry, and a ruling could allow the MLBAM to have a monopoly over the industry.

CBC won the lawsuit as U. S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Medler ruled that statistics are part of the public domain and can be used at no cost by fantasy companies.

Ralph Anspach won a lawsuit over his game Anti-Monopoly on appeals in 1979, as the 9th District Court determined that the trademark Monopoly was generic, and therefore unenforceable.

In a later case in New York, the Moxie Nerve Food Company won a lawsuit against Modox, which subsequently went out of business.

In 2010, GPHI announced it had won a significant favorable ruling in its litigation with ATI Technologies and AMD in June 2010, following the patent lawsuit originally filed during the Silicon Graphics, Inc. era.

Waits won the lawsuit, becoming one of the first artists to successfully sue a company for using an impersonator without permission.

" Under this definition, any increase in wealth — whether through wages, benefits, bonuses, sale of stock or other property at a profit, bets won, lucky finds, awards of punitive damages in a lawsuit, qui tam actions — are all within the definition of income, unless the Congress makes a specific exemption, as it has for items such as life insurance proceeds received by reason of the death of the insured party, gifts, bequests, devises and inheritances, and certain scholarships.

Norris did not take this tactic, dubbed as fear, uncertainty and doubt ( FUD ), lying down, and in an extensive antitrust lawsuit launched against IBM a year later, he eventually won a settlement valued at $ 80 million.

In the same month it won its lawsuit against IBM, CDC also announced its new computer, the CDC 7600 ( previously referred to as the 6800 within CDC ).

Meredith won a lawsuit that allowed him admission to The University of Mississippi in September 1962.

In 1996, IHR won a $ 6, 430, 000 judgment in a lawsuit against Carto in which IHR alleged that Carto embezzled $ 7. 5 million that had been left to IHR from the estate of Jean Edison Farrel.

In May 1930, Western Electric won an Austrian lawsuit that voided protection for certain Tri-Ergon patents, helping bring Tobis-Klangfilm to the negotiating table.

Bunnatine " Bunny " Greenhouse, a formerly high-ranking official in the Corps, won a lawsuit against the United States government in July 2011.

In 1998, Chief Deputy U. S. Marshal ( now inactive ) Matthew Fogg won a landmark EEO and Title VII racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against the Justice Department, for which he was awarded $ 4 million.

As chairman of the Public Service Commission in 1922, Long won a lawsuit against the Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company for unfair rate increases, resulting in cash refunds of $ 440, 000 to 80, 000 overcharged customers.

* In 1996, Jamie Nabozny won a landmark lawsuit against officials at his former public high school in Ashland, Wisconsin over their refusal to intervene in the " relentless antigay verbal and physical abuse by fellow students " to which he had been subjected and which had resulted in his hospitalization.

In 1899, the city of Redlands won a lawsuit in which the city claimed eminent domain over the Bear Valley water ; the resulting loss of service forced most of Moreno Valley's inhabitants to move.

As the tribe appears unable or unwilling to meet CalTrans ’ requirements, this lawsuit must be won by the tribe before the casino can be built.

The lawsuit was supported by Bryan Cave, Washington University Law School, St. Louis University Legal Clinic, the ACLU, MALDEF, the Hispanic Ministry of the Catholic Church and several private attorneys, who won a temporary restraining order.

In 2007, Rosecrest won a lawsuit with partner land owners / developers that likely will allow about to be annexed out of neighbor city Bluffdale into Herriman to further expand the Rosecrest / Herriman housing projects.

After a protracted lawsuit that lasted five years and cost $ 1. 3 million, The Kingsmen won the rights to their song " Louie Louie ".

Moreno Laparade won the lawsuit twice, but Moreno Ivanova eventually triumphed after two appeals.

Due to a United States lawsuit won by Blizzard against bnetd's original developers, they no longer maintain or host bnetd.

`` We were brought up that way '' was one statement which won general assent.

It is not simply giving a repetition of the program it gave during its New York engagement earlier this season, but has brought back many of the numbers that were on the bill when it paid us its first visit and won everybody's heart.

The 1976 season brought Reggie Jackson and Ken Holtzman from a trade with Oakland, but the Orioles only won 88 games.

In a busy summer, Powell brought in 19 new players and after a successful season, on 14 April 2012, Charlton Athletic won promotion back to the Championship with a 1 – 0 away win at Carlisle United.

The movie won an Academy Award as Best Foreign Film and brought Masina the Best Actress Award at Cannes for her performance.

Agricola's dialogue Bermannus, sive de re metallica dialogus or a dialogue on metallurgy, ( 1530 ) the first attempt to reduce to scientific order the knowledge won by practical work, brought Agricola into notice ; it contained an approving letter from Erasmus at the beginning of the book.

Labor leader Arthur Calwell bitterly opposed Australia's part in the war and promised that Australian troops would be brought home if Labor won office, and opposition to overseas service by Australian conscripts had long been part of ALP policy.

The first was won with Cronje scoring 49 and 74 ; in the second Test, he took 3 / 14, his best bowling in Tests, and smashed 82 off 63 balls, his fifty being brought up with three consecutive sixes off Muttiah Muralitharan, and was reached off just 31 balls ; at the time, it was the second fastest in Tests after Kapil Dev's.

On a later occasion in Parma, he won another valuable violin ( also by Guarneri ) after a difficult sight-reading challenge brought on by a man named Pasini.

His forces in Hama won a victory over their enemy and brought the spoils, together with many prisoners of war to Saladin who ordered the captives to be beheaded for " plundering and laying waste the lands of the Faithful.

In 1962, after another memorable pennant chase with the Dodgers which resulted in a playoff series which the Giants won, the Giants brought a World Series to San Francisco.

On April 12, 2012, the WSOP announced that 30 players had committed to the tournament, which brought the first prize to $ 12. 3 million, exceeding the record amount won by Jamie Gold.

It has even been said that the only permanent acquisition that England owed directly to him was her Canadian dominion ; and, strictly speaking, this is true, it being admitted that the campaign by which the Indian empire was virtually won was not planned by him, though brought to a successful issue during his ministry.

La Vie mode d ' emploi ( 1978 ) brought Perec some financial and critical success — it won the Prix Médicis — and allowed him to turn to writing full-time.

In 496 — ten years after Clovis, King of the Salian Franks, won his victory at Soissons ( 486 ) — Remigius, the bishop of Reims, baptized him using the oil of the sacred phial — purportedly brought from heaven by a dove for the baptism of Clovis and subsequently preserved in the Abbey of Saint-Remi.

1968 brought the first of a series of British-organised intercontinental rallies, the Daily Express London-Sydney Marathon, which attracted over 100 crews including a number of works teams and top drivers ; it was won by the Hillman Hunter of Andrew Cowan / Brian Coyle / Colin Malkin.

The round was won by Marcos Ambrose in a fitting conclusion to his 2003 championship win, but made headlines when Ambrose's teammate Russell Ingall and Holden Racing Team rival Mark Skaife spectacularly brought the sport into disrepute with an on-track / off-track stoush.

Keegan was given more money for players, and he brought in Rob Lee, Paul Bracewell and Barry Venison and the club won the then First Division Championship at the end of the 1992 – 93 season, earning promotion to the then new Premier League.

Wells attempted a final dip which had brought him victory in the 100, but he fell short, and Wells won the silver medal behind Pietro Mennea, who beat him by 0. 02 s ; again he set a British record of 20. 21 s. He went on to break a third British record, 38. 62 s, with the sprint relay team that finished fourth in the final.

In earlier times Jack Clayton's The Innocents ( 1961 ) brought The Turn of the Screw to vivid life on film, and William Wyler's The Heiress ( 1949 ), adapted from Washington Square, won four Academy Awards, including a Best Actress award for Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper.

In 1993 Adrian Noble won a Globe Award for Best Director for his Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation, which then was successfully brought to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1994.

He won accolades in the same year for his part in Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears, which brought him to the attention of Alexander Korda and Darryl F. Zanuck.

Ti ' i Ti ' i ( a demi god ) won the fire from Mafui ' e in a battle and thus fire was brought to the people of Samoa.

The card after that won for the talliere, who took money from each player's card of that sort, and brought it into his bank, an obvious and prodigious advantage over the players.