So? They didn't win in court they got a settlement, the fact is that is their goal, to get settlements from companies who can't afford lengthy legal battles. Viacom has been in trouble for a while now so they probably could do without lengthy legal preceding and costly legal battles, the lawsuit could also force them to delay RB2 which would encourage them to settle.
Fact is they already fought and won a similar patent against Gibson over technology which simulates a concert with pre-recorded audio and an imitation instrument. There is no founding in the lawsuit what-so-ever (as stated with the Gibson one), Konami are just trying to make the road to releasing rock revolution a bit smoother and make it harder to get Rock Band 2 out the door as it'll certainly cripple RR to have an established brand already on their second game.
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