Lawsuits
“Happy Birthday to You” in public domain
Good Morning to You Productions Corp., a production company working on a documentary about the song, sued Warner Chappel Music in New York federal court in June 2013, claiming that “Happy Birthday…
Graffiti Artist Sues Jeremy Scott and Moschino
Tierney v. Moschino United States District Court, Central District of California Case No. 2:15-cv-05900 Filed August 5, 2015 While not exactly a video game case, we thought our readers might find…
Nintendo and Tomita back in court over “Offset Presetting Means”
Tomita Technologies USA LLC v. Nintendo Co. U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York Case No. 11-cv-04256, Filed June 22, 2011 Case No. 1:14-cv-09560, Filed December 3, 2014 Back in…
Decided: Quintal Research Group v. Nintendo
Quintal Research Group, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. Case No. 4:13-cv-00888 United States District Court for the Northern District of California Filed February 27, 2013; Terminated July 17, 2015 Plaintiff Quintal…
Case Update – IPR filed by EA against White Knuckle IP patent on game updates
Back in January we reported a new patent case filed by White Knuckle IP against Electronic Arts over updating sports video games based on real-life events during a season. The asserted patent…
DECIDED: Archi Comic Publications Inc. v. Penders
Archie Comic Publications Inc. v. Penders United States District Court, Southern District of New York Case No. 1:10-cv-08858, Filed November 23, 2010 This case was terminated on July 1, 2013. All claims…
Digital Reg of Texas, LLC v. Adobe Systems Incorporated et al. U.S. District Court decision rendered.
Digital Reg of Texas, LLC v. Adobe Systems Incorporated et al. U.S. District Court, Northern District of California Case No. 3:12-cv-01971-NC, Filed April 20, 2012 On December 22, 2014, this…
Case Decided: Bandspeed, Inc. v. Sony Electronics et al.
Bandspeed, Inc. v. Sony Electronics Inc. et al. United States District Court, Western District of Texas Case No. 09-593, Filed August 7, 2009 This case was terminated on December 14, 2011, after…
Case Decided: Home Gambling Network et al. v. Piche et al.
Home Gambling Network et al. v. Piche et al. Docket No. 2:05-cv-00610 United States District Court, District of Nevada, filed May 16, 2005 On September 30, 2013, the Court issued an order…
UPDATED: T5 Labs, LLC v. Gaikai, Inc.
T5 Labs, LLC v. Gaikai, Inc. United States District Court, District of Delaware Case No. 1:12-cv-01281, Filed October 5, 2012 This case was terminated on April 11, 2014. The parties settled the…
Motiva LLC v. Nintendo Co. Ltd. Case Dismissed
Motiva LLC v. Nintendo Co. Ltd. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Case No. 10-cv-349, Filed March 2, 2010 This case was terminated on June 19, 2014. The…
Nintendo Wii Balance Board suit dismissed
Ithaca Ventures k.s. et al. v. Nintendo of America Inc. et al. United States District Court, Western District of Washington 2:14-cv-01512 Filed May 9, 2013 Terminated May 18, 2015 On May 18,…
USPTO IPR on “Rock Band” Decided:
On May 6, 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board found four claims of U.S. Patent No. 5,513,129 invalid. The patent, owned by Princeton Digital Image Corp., is directed to controlling virtual…
Appeal decided in Garcia v. Google: NO Copyright Protection for Individual Actors in a Motion Picture
In a second major case decided today, the 9th Circuit held that there is no independent copyright held by a performer in a motion picture (film, TV, etc.) work. As reported by…
Apple v. Samsung appeal decided: design patents good, trade dress bad.
May 18, 2015: Today the Federal Circuit decided the appeal in the first Apple v. Samsung case, upholding a majority of Apple’s damages award, namely, damages attributable to patent infringement. However, the…
New Case: Acceleration Bay LLC v. Electronic Arts, Inc.
Acceleration Bay LLC v. Electronic Arts, Inc. U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware ded-1-15-cv-00282 Filed March 30, 2015 Fresh off their complaint against Activision Blizzard, Acceleration Bay has filed a…
New Case – SyncPoint Imaging, LLC v. Nintendo of America Inc.
SyncPoint Imaging, LLC v. Nintendo of America Inc. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Case No. 2:15-cv-00247, Filed February 20, 2015 A new complaint alleges that Nintendo’s Wii and…
New Case – Acceleration Bay LLC v. Activision Blizzard, Inc.
Acceleration Bay LLC v. Activision Blizzard, Inc. U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, Case No. 1-15-cv-00228, Filed March 11, 2015 A new complaint alleges that Activision Blizzard is violating several…
New Case – White Knuckle IP v Electronic Arts
White Knuckle IP, LLC v. Electronic Arts, Inc. US District Court for the District of Utah 1:15-cv-00014 Filed January 16, 2015 In a new case, plaintiff White Knuckle IP accuses Electronic Arts…
Federal Circuit Affirms Invalidity of Virtual Camera Patent Based on Real-World Prior Art
Gamecaster, Inc. v. Dreamworks Animation SKG, Inc. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Case No. 2014-1380 January 8, 2015 The Federal Circuit affirmed a finding by the USPTO during an inter partes…