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Atari Games Corp. v. Oman, 979 F. (2d) 242 (Cir DC 1992)
Atari Games Corp. v. Oman 979 F. (2d) 242 (DC Cir. 1992) This case dealt with the copyright status of video games, particularly whether video games are eligible for registration. Atari Games…
A “Breakout” Case: Atari Games Corp. v. Oman
Atari Games Corp. v. Oman 979 F.2d 242 (D.C. Cir. 1992) I. Background In 1989, Atari brought an action against Ralph Oman, the Register of Copyrights at the time, that…
Case: Okor v. Atari Games Corp. et al.
Okor v. Atari Games Corp. et al76 Fed. Appx. 327 (Fed. Cir. 2003). I. Statement of Facts This case is one in a series of attempts by Joseph Kwame Okor to enforce…
Case: Atari v. Sega (N.D. Cal. 1994) [P]
Atari Corp. v. Sega of America Inc. 869 F. Supp. 783 (N.D. Cal. 1994) Atari brought a motion for a preliminarily injunction against the manufacture and distribution of Sega’s games on the…
Case: Atari v. Nintendo (Fed. Cir. 1992) [C]
Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of Am., Inc. 975 F.2d 832 (Fed. Cir. 1992) I. Statement of Facts Nintendo designed a program, the 10NES, for its Nintendo Entertain System (NES) to prevent…
Case: Atari v. Nintendo (N.D. Cal. 1993) [C,P]
Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. 30 U.S.P.Q.2d 1401 (N.D. Cal. 1993) (Atari II) Following a 1992 Federal Circuit ruling upholding a preliminary injunction in favor of Nintendo (see…
Case: Atari v. North American Phillips Consumer Electronics (C) [7th Cir.] 1982
Atari, Inc. v. North American Philips Consumer Electronics Corp., 672 F.2d 607 (7th Cir. 1982) In this early case regarding copyright protection of video games, the court addresses the issue of determining…
U.S. Patent No. 4,738,451: Multi-player, multi-character cooperative play video game with independent player entry and departure
U.S. Patent No. 4,738,451: Multi-player, multi-character cooperative play video game with independent player entry and departure Issued April 19, 1988, to Atari Games Corp. Priority Date May 20, 1986 Summary: U.S. Patent…
Case: Roginsky v. Time Warner (M.D. Penn. 1997) [C]
Roginski v. Time Warner Interactive, Inc. 967 F.Supp. 821 (M.D. Penn. 1997) Plaintiff Paul A. Roginski (Roginski) filed a copyright infringement action against defendants Time Warner Interactive, Inc., Atari Games Corp. and…
Case: Frybarger v. IBM (9th Cir. 1987) – Copyright
Frybarger v. Int’l Business Mach. Corp. 812 F.2d 525 (9th Cir. 1987) Before the introduction of sprawling virtual environments, ragdoll physics, and parallel GPUs, the video game industry lived in an 8-bit…
Case: Alpex v. Nintendo (Fed. Cir. 1996) [P]
Alpex Computer Corp. v. Nintendo Co. 102 F.3d 1214 (Fed. Cir. 1996) I. Background In the mid-1970’s, Alpex Computer Corporation developed and patented a new home video game system technology using removable,…