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CASE SETTLED: Activision v. Gibson [P]
Not surprising in view of the court’s claim construction that heavily favored Activision, it appears that Gibson and Activision have settled this case. Judge Pfaelzer of the District Court for the Central…
News: Pirate Bay Operators Found Guilty
On a related note… If you haven’t already heard, the four men connected to The Pirate Bay, the world’s most notorious file sharing site, were convicted by a Swedish court Friday of…
Case Update: Worlds.com v. NCSoft
You may recall that Worlds.com sued NCSoft last Christmas Eve in the Eastern District of Texas. In an interesting development, the case has been transferred to the Northern District of California. On…
New Case: Dream Games v. PC Onsite (9th Cir) [C]
Dream Games of Arizona Inc. v. PC Onsite 9th Cir., No. 07-15847, 4/2/2009 This is a placeholder post until we can review and provide more info. But in brief… (From BNA): A…
Case Update: MOAEC v. Pandora [P] (April 8, 2009)
April 8, 2009, Chicago — The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin granted summary judgment for Banner & Witcoff’s client Pandora in a patent infringement suit brought by MOAEC,…
Banner & Witcoff Secures Pandora Win
For those Pandora fans out there, I am pleased to report that our law firm represents Pandora in this case. If any of the media who track my blog would like to…
Game show patents…
So I just ran in to Tom Bergeron in the lobby of my office building, and it got me thinking: how many game shows have patent protection? Game shows are games, which…
We are now on Twitter!
Hey everyone, PatentArcade.com is now on TWITTER! Yep, you can follow us by following GameLawyer at twitter.com, or by selecting the link on the right of the PatentArcade.com home page.
Triangle Game Conference
We will be attending the Triangle Game Conference in Raleigh, NC, on April 29-30. Please let us know if you will be there and would like to meet. Steve Change from my…
Case Update: MDY v. Blizzard
The creator of a software bot designed to allow users of Blizzard Entertainment Inc.’s World of Warcraft to continue playing the online role-playing game while away from their computers remains on the…
Bear with me…
…while I play with layout changes… and NO, there will NOT be advertisements on the blog! Thanks, Ross
News/Update: Cloud Gaming
Cloud computing has been a hot topic lately. Just ask Dell, whose application to register the trademark CLOUD COMPUTING was refused because the term is already generic. Amazon, Google, and other service…
Can it be true?
GDC 2009 – Are you here, too?
Shoot me an email if you want to meet for coffee.
Update: ADC v. Microsoft et al.
In a previous post, we reported on the filing of this patent lawsuit regarding pay-for-download software over a computer network, e.g., including games. Well it appears that Sony is out of the…
THE FAMILY GUY v. JIMINY CRICKET (Copyright Fair Use)
Bourne Co. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. et al. U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. March 16, 2009 Ok, the case isn’t REALLY Peter Griffin versus a…
News: Sheperd Farey/AP Copyright Dispute Images
This isn’t exactly video game related, so I won’t take up much of your time, but if anyone was looking for a side-by-side comparison of the Shepherd Farey Obama poster next to…
Ross Dannenberg Speaking at GDC 2009
I will be speaking at GDC 2009 in San Francisco, California. The event is at the Moscone Center, and my session is scheduled for Friday at NOON! Yes, I drew the Friday…
Patent Reform 2009
It appears that congress is again going to try to pass patent reform legislation. Rather than recreate the wheel, and based on other deadlines I have today, feel free to read the…
Case: Zynga v. CLZ Concepts (filed 2/27/09, ND Cal.) [copyright]
Zynga Game Network on February 27, 2009, filed suit against CLZ Concepts, Jeff Chen, and James Zhang asserting copyright infringement. The case is 3:09-cv-00854-EMC in the District Court for the Northern District…