Lawsuit
Bears Versus Yetis the Triple Town Copyright Infringement Case
Bears Versus Yetis the Triple Town Copyright Infringement Case Spry Fox LLC v. LOLApps Inc., United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, 2012 2012 WL 5290158 This case is…
Case Update: Iron Maiden Holdings Ltd. v. 3D Realms Entertainment ApS
Iron Maiden Holdings Ltd. v. 3D Realms Entertainment ApS Complaint Filed May 28, 2019 United States District Court Central District of California 3D Realms has now responded to the suit, filed by…
Dynamic and Nonliteral Elements Win Protection in Blizzard Copyright Suit
Dynamic and Nonliteral Elements Win Protection in Blizzard Copyright Suit MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and Vivendi Games, Inc. 629 F.3d 928 (9th Cir. 2010) For those who followed our…
Hard Rock Life for Video Game Music Teacher
Hard Rock Life for Video Game Music Teacher Ubisoft Entertainment, S.A. et al v. Yousician Oy United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Case No. 5-18-CV-383 On August…
Iron Man’s Iron Defense
Iron Man’s Iron Defense Horizon Comics Products Inc. v. Marvel Entertainment LLC et. al., Case Number 1:16-cv-02499 United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Filed April 4, 2016…
Blackbird Techs. v. Niantic, Inc.
Blackbird Techs. v. Niantic, Inc. United States District Court for the District of Delaware C.A. No. 17-cv-1810 (Del. Oct. 31, 2018) November 28, 2018 — Video game developer Niantic recently experienced a…
Motiva sues Sony, HTC, and Oculus for Patent Infringement
Motiva Patents, LLC v. Sony Corporation et al United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Docket Number: 9-18-cv-00180, filed October 3, 2018 & Motiva Patents, LLC v. HTC Corporation…
Tetris Holding, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc.
Tetris Holding, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc. 863 F.Supp.2d 394 United States District Court for the District of New Jersey May 30, 2012 We were recently talking among ourselves about copyright protection…
Update – PUBG withdraws lawsuit against Epic
PUBG Corp., the Korean Subsidiary of Bluehole Studios (the developer of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds), has dropped its lawsuit against Fortnite developer Epic Games Inc. PUBG had filed a copyright infringement claim against Epic…
Candy Crush Pushing into Possible Patent Infringement
Groove Digital, Inc. v. King.com, LTD. et al., United States District Court for the District of Delaware, 1-18-cv-00836, filed 06/04/2018 On June 4, 2018, Groove Digital filed a lawsuit in the District…
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…
Infernal Technology and Terminal Reality sue Microsoft over Lighting and Shadowing Patents
On April 11, 2018, Infernal Technology, LLC and Terminal Reality, Inc. (“Infernal”) filed a complaint for patent infringement against Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”). The asserted patents, U.S. 6,362,822 and U.S. 7,061,488, relate to…
Microsoft, Ubisoft, Nintendo, EA, Harmonix, and Majesco win challenge of motion control patent
On April 9, 2018, the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of defendants Microsoft Corporation, Ubisoft, Inc., Nintendo of America, Inc., Electronic Arts Inc., Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., and Majesco Entertainment in a…
Universal Entertainment sues Aruze Gaming and Kazuo Okada over Slot Machine Patents
On March 30, 2018, Universal Entertainment Corporation (“Universal”) sued Aruze Gaming America, Inc. (“AGA”) and Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada (“Okada”). The asserted patents generally relate to slot machines. The accused products include…
Nintendo sued by Hybrid Audio regarding MP3 Standards Patent
On March 27, 2018, Hybrid Audio, LLC (“Hybrid Audio”) sued Nintendo of America Inc. and Nintendo Co., Ltd. (“Nintendo”) for alleged infringement of RE 40,281, a reissue of U.S. 6,252,909. The allegedly…
Lucasfilm’s suit over “Sabacc” Mobile Game Disputes Protection of “Fictional Goods”
Plaintiffs Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC and Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. LLC (“Lucasfilm”) have challenged attempts by defendant Ren Ventures Ltd. and Sabacc Creative Industries Ltd. (“Ren”) to dismiss a lawsuit by Lucasfilm alleging…
Four Konami Slot Machine Patents Held Invalid
Konami, no stranger to invalidity challenges against their video gaming patents, recently had four more patents directed to slot machines struck down as directed to abstract ideas. On Feb. 21, 2018, the…
Pokémon GO Creator Niantic, Inc. sued for Augmented Reality Patent Infringement
On January 30, 2018, Barbaro Technologies, LLC (“Barbaro”) sued Niantic, Inc. (“Niantic”) for the alleged infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 7,373,377 and 8,228,325. Barbaro’s asserted patents are generally directed to integrating real-world…
Bankers & Brokers Loses Big on Card Game Patent Claims in New Jersey
On January 17, 2018, U.S. District Judge John Michael Vazquez of the District of New Jersey dismissed all patent infringement claims asserted by Joseph Scibetta (a/k/a “Bankers & Brokers”) (“Scibetta”), against Slingo,…
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…