Scott Kelly
Steam Under Fire – New Case: Ironburg Inventions v Valve (NDGA 2015)
Ironburg Inventions LTD vs. Valve Corp. Northern District of Georgia, Case No. 1-15-cv-04219 December 3, 2015 In a new case, patentee Ironburg Inventions accuses Valve of infringing two game controller patents with…
Second Screen Game Software Patent Survives Alice – Timeplay v Audience Entertainment
Timeplay, Inc. v. Audience Entertainment, LLC Central District of California Case No. CV 15-05202 Patentable subject matter under 35 USC 101 has become a primary issue in most patent cases since the…
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…
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…
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…
Nintendo gets second chance from Federal Circuit on 3DS patent suit
Tomita Tech. USA, LLC et al. v. Nintendo Co., LTD et al. Federal Circuit Case No. 2014-1244 (non-precedential) On appeal from S.D.N.Y., case no. 1:11-CV-04256 Back in 2011, Tomita sued Nintendo over…
Patton goes to War Over Use of Name and Likeness in Video Game
Catching up on some reading from last week, Ars Technica (via Video Gamer Law) reports on a new lawsuit filed by the rights holder to Patton’s name and likeness against Maximum Family…
New Case: Ubisoft v Guitar Apprentice
Ubisoft Entertainment, S.A., v. Guitar Apprentice, Inc. 3:14-CV-05202 Northern District of California Filed November 24, 2014 In a new case, Ubisoft asserts U.S. Pat. No. 8,835,736 against Guitar Apprentice. The ‘736…
Winning the lottery type game is your destiny – Sweepstakes Patent Company
Sweepstakes Patent Company, LLC v. Burns et al. and Mosely et al. Southern District of Florida Case Nos. 0-14-cv-62351 and 0-14-cv-62354 In two new cases, plaintiff Sweepstakes Patent Company (SPC) accuses internet…
Electronic lip syncing patent invalid as abstract idea – 101 analysis based on admitted prior art
McRO, Inc. v. Namco Bandai, et al. Central District of California No. CV 12-10322 September 22, 2014 In a case described by the court as illustrating “the danger that exists when the…
Unlockable Content and Microtransactions in Mobile Games – New Case – Inventor Holdings LLC (D. Del. 2014)
Inventor Holdings, LLC v. [Multiple Defendants] United States District Court for the District of Delaware File Nos. 1-14-cv-01067 (Gameloft); 1-14-cv-01068 (Glu Mobile); 1-14-cv-01069 (Kabam); 1-14-cv-01070 (King.com); 1-14-cv-01071 (ngmoco); 1-14-cv-01072 (Rovio); 1-14-cv-01073 (Supercell)…
Bingo! for Video King – Alice decision applied to bingo manager system
Planet Bingo, LLC v. VKGS LLC (dba Video King) United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit – Nonprecedential – Case No. 2013-1663 Decided: August 26, 2014 In what it called…