software

Analysis
The user interface for a video game.

Blizzard’s 2021 Patent Focused on Restoring Gameplay from a Point in Time

Blizzard’s response to save-scumming: “Why not just rewind?”

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Patent Analysis

U.S. Patent No. 8,591,332: Video game video editor

U.S. Patent No. 8,591,332: Video game video editor Issued Nov. 26, 2013, to Activision Publishing, Inc. Summary: The ‘332 patent describes a video editor that displays game play clips created while the…

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Lawsuits

Second Screen Game Software Patent Survives Alice – Timeplay v Audience Entertainment

Timeplay, Inc. v. Audience Entertainment, LLC Central District of California Case No. CV 15-05202 Patentable subject matter under 35 USC 101 has become a primary issue in most patent cases since the…

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Lawsuits

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…

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Outrageous! Why am I Outraged?

So word has hit the Internet that Facebook’s U.S. Patent No. 7,669,123, entitled “Dynamically Providing a News Feed About a User of a Social Network,” issued last week, and it’s certainly created…

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