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New Case: Suit Filed Over Patent for Electronic Trading Cards
Wildcat Intellectual Property Holdings, LLC v. 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. et alU.S. District Court, Eastern District of TexasCase No. 11-cv-305, Filed July 1, 2011 Wildcat, a Plano, TX based intellectual property holdings company…
Online Farming (game) Dispute!
SocialApps LLC v Zynga Inc. et al U.S. District Court, Central District of California Case No. 11-cv-00919, Filed June 17, 2011 SocialApps, a California company that develops, posts, and maintains online social…
Case Update: Gametech v. Grand Vision Gaming (D. MT) [C]
GAMETECH INTERNATIONAL, INC., v. GRAND VISION GAMING, LLC, TIMOTHY CARSON, and MERLE FRANK, and JOHN DOES 1-10. United States District Court for the District of Montana Case No. 09-cv-00039 Case…
Achates v. Symantec
Achates Reference Publishing, Inc. v. Symantec Corporation et al. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Case No. 11-cv-00294, Filed June 20, 2011 Achates Publishing, a Texas enterprise, has sued…
Online Social Gaming Suits Abound
Zynga Inc. v. Vostu USA Inc. United States District Court, Northern District of California Case No. 3:11-cv-02959-MEJ, Filed June 16, 2011 Zynga, arguably the largest presence in online social gaming today (and…
Case Update: Keller v. Electronic Arts, Inc.
Keller et al. v. Electronic Arts, Inc. et al. U.S. District Court, Northern District of California Case No. 09-cv-1967 Case Update: When last we checked in on this case (02/08/2010),…
Case Update: Rubin v. Apple Inc.
Don Rubin v. Apple Inc. et al United States District Court for N.D. Cal. Case No. 3:09-cv-02607, Filed June 9, 2009 Case Update:After surviving Apple’s motion to dismiss, on September 8,…
EFF Files Amicus Brief in support of Datel in case against Microsoft
Datel Holdings Ltd. v. Microsoft Corporation United States District Court, Northern District of California Case No. 2009-cv-05535, Filed November 20, 2009 Back in 2009, Microsoft issued a remote update that stopped third-party…
New Case: Deus Ex Preview Leaked
Square Enix Limited v. Does 1-15 U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington Case No. 11-cv-01045, Filed June 22, 2011 Square Enix has filed a new lawsuit against unknown Italian individuals who…
Nintendo Faces Suit over 3DS
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 A technology company based in Japan and the U.S. brought…
Case Update: Take-Two Interactive v. Apogee Software
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. v. Apogee Software, Ltd. United States District Court for S.D.N.Y. Case No. 1:2009-cv-05054, Filed May 11, 2009 Case Update:This case was dismissed with prejudice on May 28, 2010,…
Case Update: Zynga Game Network v. Playdom
Zynga Game Network, Inc. v. Playdom, Inc. United States District Court for N.D. Cal. Case No. 3:09-cv-02748-EMC, Filed June 19, 2009 Case Update: This case was dismissed on November 18, 2010. On…
CASE UPDATE: Zynga v. John Does 1-5
Zynga Game Network, Inc. v. John Does 1-5 U.S. District Court, Northern District of California Case No. 09-cv-02441, Filed June 2, 2009 Final Update: This case was voluntarily dismissed without…
Zynga files for $1B IPO
Anyone who thinks games aren’t big business, think again. Zynga today (July 1, 2011) filed for a $1 BILLION dollar IPO! Unlike many of its fellow much-buzzed-about Web upstarts, Zynga is solidly…
A Mark Against Activision?
Patent Compliance Group, Inc. v. Activision Publishing, Inc. U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas Case No. 10-cv-00288, Filed February 12, 2010 Original Post: On June 1, 2010, PCG filed a notice…
Zynga Files Two New Cases
Zynga Game Network, Inc. v. Duc Doan U.S. District Court, Northern District of California Case No. 09-cv-02958, Filed July 1, 2009 Case Update: This case was dismissed on September 25, 2009, following…
CASE UPDATE: Eros LLC v. Linden Research, Inc.
Eros, LLC et al v. Linden Research, Inc. et al U.S. District Court, Northern District of California Case No. 09-cv-04269, Filed September 15, 2009 Final Update: This case was moved from court…
Case Update: Zynga v. John Does 1-50
Zynga Game Network, Inc. v. John Does 1-50 United States District Court for N.D. Cal. Case No. 3:09-cv-02744-BZ, Filed June 19, 2009 Case Update: This case was dismissed on February, 18, 2011.…
Case Update: Nintendo v. Chan
Nintendo of America v. Daniel Man Tik Chan United States District Court for C.D. Cal. Case No. 2:09-cv-04203-JFW-PLA, Filed June 12, 2009 Case Update: This case ended on August 20, 2009, following…
Supreme Court Decisively Extends First Amendment Protections to Video Games
Brown et al. v. Entertainment Merchants Association et al. United States Supreme Court Case No. 08-1448 The Supreme Court ruled on Monday, June 27, 2011, that a California law regulating the sale…