Copyright
Epic Games Argues Teenaged Fortnite Hacker should Face Suit
On April 23, 2018, Epic Games, Inc. (“Epic”) filed a response to a Motion to Dismiss filed by Lauren Rogers, the mother of a teenaged Fortnite hacker (“C. R.”) facing a copyright…
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Creator sues over alleged Chinese knockoffs
On April 2, 2018, PUBG Corporation and PUBG Santa Monica, Inc. (“PUBG”) sued NetEase, Inc. and NetEase Information Technology Corp. (“NetEase”) over alleged copyright infringement, trade dress infringement, and unfair competition. The complaint…
Photographer sues IGN over Pokémon GO Photo
On January 12, 2018, photographer Christopher Sadowski sued IGN Entertainment, Inc. (“IGN”) for copyright infringement. The copyright in question: a photograph of the Pokémon GO homepage on Sadowski’s cell phone, similar to (but…
Epic sues (another) alleged Fortnite Hacker
On January 8, 2018, Epic Games, Inc. (“Epic”) continued its legal crusade against alleged Fortnite hackers by suing Yash Gosai, a resident of Auckland, New Zealand, for copyright infringement, breach of contract,…
Epic Games sues two more alleged Fortnite hackers
On October 17, 2017, Epic Games sued Philip Josefsson and Artem Yakovenko for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, false designation of origin, breach of contract, and, under California law, unfair competition. The allegations…
Epic sues alleged Fortnite hackers Brandon Broom and Charles Vraspir
On October 11, Epic Games, Inc. and Epic Games International (“Epic”) sued individuals Brandon Broom and Charles Vraspir in two separate suits (5:17-CV-0511 and 5:17-CV-0512) for copyright infringement, circumvention of the Digital…
Atari sues Nestle over Breakout Advertisement
Atari Interactive, Inc. v. Nestlé, SA No. 3:17-CV-04803-SK (N.D. Cal. Aug. 17, 2017) On August 17, 2017, Atari Interactive sued Nestlé, alleging that a Nestlé KIT KAT® advertisement titled “Kit Kat:…
Google Sues Uber (THIS COULD BE BIG) – The More You Know…
Wow. You’ve likely read the news today about Google suing Uber. No? Here’s a good summary at The Verge. Here’s the post on Medium. From the post on Medium: We found that…
SUPREME COURT: KIRTSAENG V. JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. – Attorney Fees in Copyright Cases
U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES IN KIRTSAENG V. JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. By Rajit Kapur Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., No. 15-375, that it is appropriate…
Case Closed: Spry Fox LLC v. Lolapps, Inc.
Spry Fox LLC v. Lolapps, Inc. Washington Western District Court Case Number: 2:2012cv00147 Following a court dismissal of LOLApp’s motion to dismiss, which included the court noting that copyright protection of video…
Case Update: Spry Fox’s Triple Town case
As we previously reported, Spry Fox sued 6waves for copyright infringement back in January 2012. Spry Fox developed Triple Town, and 6waves developed the suspiciously similar Yeti Town. Well we have a…
BattleLore Copyright Infringement and Unfair Competition Suit
Fantasy Flight Publishing, Inc. v. Puffin Software et al. U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota Case No. 11-cv-01928, Filed July 15, 2011 Fantasy Flight Publishing, owner of the war strategy board game…
No Good Comes of Messing with the Zohan
Robert W. Cabell v. Sony Entertainment Pictures, Inc. et al United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Case No. 10-2690-cv, Filed February 20, 2009 As comics often serve as…
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…
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…
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…
Pirates attack… oh wait… you mean REAL pirates???
It used to be that headlines like this referred to people pirating music, software, or video games. Kind of funny that this headline once again refers to REAL pirates. Not the kind…
Case Update: CBC v. MLB
CBC v. MLB, E.D.Mo. (Aug. 8, 2006) For those that have been following this case, the District Court on Tuesday, August 8, 2006, ruled in favor of CBC fantasy sports, and completely…
Case: Davidson Assoc. v. Internet Gateway (8th Cir. 2006) [C]
Davidson & Associates, Inc. v. Internet Gateway __ F.3d. __ (8th Cir. 2006) Better known as Blizzard v. bnetd, this case curbs the development of new computer programs that interoperate with existing…
Case: Marvel Ent. v. NCSoft Corp. (Settled 2005)
Why Wolverine should never scratch his nose… Marvel Enterprises, Inc. et al. v. NCSoft Corporation, et al. (Headnote: subsequent to our previous posting on this case, the parties have settled…) Amid the…