Copyrights
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,…
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…
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: 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: 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…
Case Update: Wizards of the Coast [C]
Wizards of the Coast v. RadzikoskiWizards of the Coast v. Radzikoski Case Updates: As regards Case 1: Wizards of the Coast LLC v. Krysztof Radzikowski et al., case 2:09-cv-00460-RSM , the case…
9th Circuit Rules in MDY v. Blizzard
A panel of the 9th Circuit on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s 2009 injunction barring the distribution of the Glider computer program that automatically plays the lower levels of World of Warcraft.…
Case Update: Miller v. Facebook (part 2)
Well, it looks like Facebook’s attempt to have its lawsuit with Daniel Miller dismissed has failed again. The diligent reader will remember from our previous post that Miller brought a claim against…
How About If We Go With “Vulcan Mind” Instead?
Lucasfilm Ltd (Lucasfilm) has sensed a disturbance. They filed suit last week against “Jedi Mind, Inc.” (Jedi Mind) accusing the Nevada company of infringing Lucasfilm’s rights in the “Jedi” trademark (among other…
Case Update: Miller v. Facebook
Miller v. Facebook Inc. et. al. N.D.Cal., Case no. 10-cv-00264 Facebook’s attempts to end a lawsuit with Daniel Miller before trial has again apparently failed. On July 23, 2010, the United States…
Case Analysis: Sony v. Connectix
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. v. Connectix Corp. 203 F.3d 596 (9th Cir. 2000) I. Background Connectix Corporation created and sold a software program called “Virtual Game Station” (VGS), an emulator of…
Pikachu: “I Sue You!”
Pikachu may be cute, but he’s got teeth. The Pokémon Company Int’l. Inc. (“Pokémon”) filed suit last Friday against Beckett Media LLC (“Beckett”), accusing Beckett of copyright infringement. Specifically, Pokémon alleges that…
Case Analysis: Sony v. Filipiak
Sony Computer Entm’t America, Inc. v. Steven Filipiak, et al. 406 F. Supp. 2d 1068 (N.D. Cal. 2005) In this case decided in 2005, Sony received over $6 million in…
Case: Red Baron-Franklin Park, Inc. v. Taito Corp.
Red-Baron-Franklin Park, Inc. v. Taito Corp. 883 F.2d 275 (4th Cir. 1989). I. Background Some of you may remember twin martial artists Billy Lee or Jimmy (who also went by Hammer and…
LimeWire liable for copyright infringement
Not exactly video game related, but our readers tend to also be interested in file-sharing and online music distribution cases, so… LimeWire was recently found liable for copyright infringement of its users…
History Repeats Itself
Nintendo of America, Inc. (Nintendo) filed suit yesterday in a Washington district court, accusing an individual, Kevin Niu, of infringing Nintendo’s copyrights and trademarks in its Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii. Specifically,…
Blizzard Sues “StarCrack” Hackers
On Monday, April 12, 2010, Blizzard filed a lawsuit in federal court in California against Justin Marshall and five unnamed defendants for copyright infringement, circumvention of copyright protection systems in violation of…
ABA IP Section Spring Conference is coming up!
For attorneys, this is the one annual conference that IP lawyers cannot afford to miss. Now in its 25th anniversary year, the Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference of the ABA Section of…
Case Update: Bissoon-Dath v. Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Inc.
On Friday, March 5, 2010, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted Sony’s motion for summary judgment in Bissoon-Dath v. Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Inc., Case No.…
BOOK RELEASE: Computer Games and Virtual Worlds
The Patent Arcade is pleased to announce that a new book co-edited by our own Ross Dannenberg (i.e., me), and partly authored by our own Steve Chang, is now available for purchase…