Lawsuits
Case Decided: Bandspeed, Inc. v. Sony Electronics et al.
Bandspeed, Inc. v. Sony Electronics Inc. et al. United States District Court, Western District of Texas Case No. 09-593, Filed August 7, 2009 This case was terminated on December 14, 2011, after…
Case Decided: Home Gambling Network et al. v. Piche et al.
Home Gambling Network et al. v. Piche et al. Docket No. 2:05-cv-00610 United States District Court, District of Nevada, filed May 16, 2005 On September 30, 2013, the Court issued an order…
UPDATED: T5 Labs, LLC v. Gaikai, Inc.
T5 Labs, LLC v. Gaikai, Inc. United States District Court, District of Delaware Case No. 1:12-cv-01281, Filed October 5, 2012 This case was terminated on April 11, 2014. The parties settled the…
Motiva LLC v. Nintendo Co. Ltd. Case Dismissed
Motiva LLC v. Nintendo Co. Ltd. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Case No. 10-cv-349, Filed March 2, 2010 This case was terminated on June 19, 2014. The…
USPTO IPR on “Rock Band” Decided:
On May 6, 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board found four claims of U.S. Patent No. 5,513,129 invalid. The patent, owned by Princeton Digital Image Corp., is directed to controlling virtual…
Patent Lawsuits Decline – Patent Lawsuits to Become Harder to File
For the first time since 2009, new patent lawsuit filings declined in 2014 from the previous year. Lawsuits dropped by 13 percent, a significant shift from the numbers of cases over the…
Appeal decided in Garcia v. Google: NO Copyright Protection for Individual Actors in a Motion Picture
In a second major case decided today, the 9th Circuit held that there is no independent copyright held by a performer in a motion picture (film, TV, etc.) work. As reported by…
Apple v. Samsung appeal decided: design patents good, trade dress bad.
May 18, 2015: Today the Federal Circuit decided the appeal in the first Apple v. Samsung case, upholding a majority of Apple’s damages award, namely, damages attributable to patent infringement. However, the…
Noriega Sues Activision Over Call of Duty Character
Jumping on the “Hey, that’s me!” bandwagon, Former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega, 80, filed a lawsuit in California yesterday against video game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc., alleging that Call of Duty: Black…
Lindsay Lohan sues Rock Star over Grand Theft Auto
Lindsay Lohan is suing Rockstar Games and its owner Take-Two Interactive over a character in Grand Theft Auto V that she alleges is an “unequivocal” representation of her image, according to the…
BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court nails Aereo’s coffin shut.
Not exactly a video game case, but important the world of Copyrights nonetheless. The decision everyone has been waiting for it out. Today the U.S. Supreme Court held that Aereo is equivalent…
Commentary: Alice v. CLS Bank
Patent Law Update June 20, 2014 Computer-Implemented Inventions: Ideas That Are Fundamental Truths And Generically Implemented Are Not Patent EligibleIn a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Thomas on June 19, 2014, the Court…
BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court strikes down patents that computerize an abstract idea
What do pornography and patents have in common? Read on to find out! Today the United States Supreme Court has held, in Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank Int’l, that claims drawn to…
Worlds Inc. v. Activision – DISMISSED
Looks like the Worlds Inc v. Activision case has been dismissed, at least for now. In an interesting development, it appears that Activision was successful in arguing that Worlds’ patent attorneys did…
P.S. Products v. Activision Blizzard – Dismissed!
P.S. PRODUCTS, INC. v. ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, INC., Case No. 4:13-cv-00342-KGB United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas Activision delivers a knockout punch. P.S. Products had sued Activision Blizzard for…
The Ninth Circuit Rules On EA, Madden, NCAA, and Publicity Rights
Brown v. Electronic Arts, Inc. United States District Court for the Central District of California Case No. 2:09-cv-01598 & In re: NCAA Student-Athlete Name & Likeness Licensing Litigation (Keller, et al v.…
Case Settled: Electronic Arts v. Textron, Inc., et al
Electronic Arts, Inc. v. Textron, Inc., et al U.S. District Court, Northern District of California Case No. 3:2012-cv-00118, Filed on January 6, 2012 This trademark dispute arises out of Electronic Arts…
Case Dismissed: ProCloud Media Invest AB v. Paramount Pictures Corporation
ProCloud Media Invest AB v. Paramount Pictures Corporation U.S. District Court, Central District of California Case No. 2:2012cv05192, Filed on June 14, 2012 ProCloud brought suit against Paramount Pictures for breach of…
Case Settled: OG International v. Ubisoft
OG International v. Ubisoft United States District Court for the Northern District of California Case No.: 3-11-cv-04980-CRB, filed on October 7, 2011 This case initially came about when OG International (OGI) filed…
Case Update: Friedrich v. Marvel et al. remanded for trial
Case Update: Friedrich v. Marvel et al. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Case No. 08-cv-01533, filed 2007 Originally filed in 2007, Gary Friedrich sued Marvel for…