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Timegate Studios, Inc. v. Southpeak Interactive, L.L.C
Timegate Studios, Inc. v. Southpeak Interactive, L.L.C 713 F.3d 797 United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit Filed April 9, 2013. Although not an intellectual property matter, Timegate provides some valuable insights…
Case Update: Motvia v. Nintendo
Motiva v. Nintendo US District Court for the Western District of Washington (originally Eastern District of Texas) Case No.: 10-cv-349; filed March 2, 2010 (originally filed November 10, 2008) Motiva originally…
Case Update: Electronic Arts, Inc. v. Zynga, Inc.
Case Update: Electronic Arts, Inc. v. Zynga, Inc. U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Case No.3:2012cv04099. Filed On August 3, 2012 The suit filed last year by EA for…
California Judge Increases Settlement Amounts Available to Class Members in EA Football Game Class Action Suit
An order was issued by a district court judge in the Northern District of California on May 30, 2013, dismissing the case with prejudice after the parties came to an outside settlement.…
Case Update: Home Gambling Network, Inc. v. Piche, et. al.
Home Gambling Network, Inc. v. Piche, et. al. United States District Court for the District of Nevada Case No. 2:05-CV-0610-DAE-VCF, Filed May 16, 2005 This 2005 case is still pending in the…
Digital Reg of Texas, LLC v. Adobe Systems Incorporated et al.
Digital Reg of Texas, LLC v. Adobe Systems Incorporated et al. U.S. District Court, Northern District of California Case No. 3:12-cv-01971-NC, Filed April 20, 2012 This case is still ongoing and has…
CLS Bank v. Alice Corp.: How will it affect video game patents?
CLS Bank v. Alice Corp. was a deeply fractured en banc decision of the Federal Circuit, in which they couldn’t agree on anything. Seriously. The per curiam decision of the court was…
Banner & Witcoff secures win for Wargaming.net
Banner & Witcoff Wins Video Game Lawsuit for World of Tanks® Developer Wargaming.net March 25, 2013 – Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. is pleased to announce that on March 22, 2013 the United…
New Case: Impulse Technology Ltd. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. et al
Impulse Technology Ltd. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. et al. U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Case No. 1:11-cv-02519 On November 11, 2011, Impulse Technology Ltd filed a complaint…
Microsoft Settles Infringement Suit Over Video Game Controller
Microsoft Corporation v Datel Design and Development Inc., et al U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington Case No. 2:2010cv02065, Filed On December 23, 2010 During December of 2011, a settlement was…
Physical Game Patent Dispute
Hidden Image Technology Solutions v. Thomas L. Barnhart U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia Case No. 11-cv-02415, Filed July 22, 2011 Hidden Image Technology Solutions, a Georgia company, has sued Thomas…
Facebook Patent Fights Continue
In a previous post we reported on the internet buzz surrounding the issuance to Facebook of U.S. Patent No. 7,669,123, entitled “Dynamically Providing a News Feed About a User of a Social…
Case Analysis: Pyramid Holdings v. Giant Interactive
Pyramid Holdings, Inc. v. Giant Interactive Group, Inc. S.D.N.Y., filed Nov. 26, 2007 Case No. 07-CV-10588 I. Nature of the Case This case is a federal securities class action on behalf of…
New Case: Microsoft Sued Over Kinect and Motion Tracking Patent
Impulse Technology Ltd. v. Microsoft Corporation et al U.S. District Court, District of Delaware Case No. 11-cv-00586, Filed July 1, 2011 Impulse Technology, an Ohio-based company, sued Microsoft Corp in Delaware…
Achates v. Symantec
Achates Reference Publishing, Inc. v. Symantec Corporation et al. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Case No. 11-cv-00294, Filed June 20, 2011 Achates Publishing, a Texas enterprise, has sued…
Case Update: Keller v. Electronic Arts, Inc.
Keller et al. v. Electronic Arts, Inc. et al. U.S. District Court, Northern District of California Case No. 09-cv-1967 Case Update: When last we checked in on this case (02/08/2010),…
Nintendo Faces Suit over 3DS
Tomita Technologies USA LLC v. Nintendo Co. U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York Case No. 11-cv-04256, Filed June 22, 2011 A technology company based in Japan and the U.S. brought…
A Mark Against Activision?
Patent Compliance Group, Inc. v. Activision Publishing, Inc. U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas Case No. 10-cv-00288, Filed February 12, 2010 Original Post: On June 1, 2010, PCG filed a notice…
Supreme Court Decisively Extends First Amendment Protections to Video Games
Brown et al. v. Entertainment Merchants Association et al. United States Supreme Court Case No. 08-1448 The Supreme Court ruled on Monday, June 27, 2011, that a California law regulating the sale…
News: Forterra Systems sues Avatar Factory
Forterra Systems, Inc. v. Avatar Factory case 5:05-cv-04472-PVT, N.D. Cal Case Update: Following a confidential settlement by the parties, this case was dismissed with prejudice on January 17, 2008. Original Post: Forterra…