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Case Update: Fenner Investments v. Microsoft
Fenner Investments, Ltd. v. Microsoft et al. United States District Court for E.D. Tex. Filed 1/5/07, Decided 3/16/09 (Opinion issued 6/3/09) Background This case revolved around Fenner Investment’s U.S. Patent No. 6,297,751,…
New Case: Zynga Game Network, Inc. v. John Does 1-5
Zynga Game Network, Inc. v. John Does 1-5 United States District Court for N.D. Cal. Case No.: 3:09-cv-02441-CRB, Filed 6/2/09 Zynga Game Network, whose settlement with CLZ Concepts we just commented…
Case Update: Fenner Investments v. Microsoft et al.
Fenner Investments Ltd. v. Microsoft et al. United States District Court for E.D. Tex. Filed 1/5/07 As you may recall this case consisted of a claim by Fenner that defendants had…
New Case: Yahoo! Inc. v. National Football League Players Association, Inc. et al.
Yahoo! Inc. v. Nat’l Football League Players Association, Inc. et al. United States District Court for D. Minn. Case No.: 0:09-cv-01272-PJS-FLN, Filed June 1, 2009 Continuing the trend of fantasy sports…
New Case: Dream Games v. PC Onsite (9th Cir) [C]
Dream Games of Arizona Inc. v. PC Onsite 9th Cir., No. 07-15847, 4/2/2009 This is a placeholder post until we can review and provide more info. But in brief… (From BNA): A…
CASE SETTLED: Square Enix v. various sword retailers
On February 24, 2009, Square Enix settled another lawsuit. According to its press release, the lawsuit named at least four national wholesalers of unlicensed sword replicas and their principals that have infringed…
IP Alert: In re Bilski
Further to the previous post, here is a more comprehensive write-up prepared by Brad Wright, a partner of mine at Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.: Intellectual Property Advisory: Court Limits Patents on Business…
Case: MDY v. Blizzard (D.Az. 2008) [C]
MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., et al. (D. Ariz. 2008) Update on December 14, 2010: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s 2009 injunction barring the…
Case Update: MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. et al
MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. et al.United States District Court, District of ArizonaCase No. 2:2006cv02555, Filed October 25, 2006 On October 25, 2006, MDY Industries, LLC (“MDY”) filed a declaratory…
Case: Ebay v. Mercexchange (2006) – Patents
Ebay Inc. v. Mercexchange LLC United States Supreme Court May 15, 2006 (Not exactly a video game case, but worth noting nonetheless, as it will apply to video game lawsuits.) Today the…
Case Update: Lucent v. Microsoft
In a newly filed lawsuit, Lucent claims that the Xbox 360 infringes its patent on MPEG-2 decoding. At the center of the dispute is Patent No. 5,227,878, “Adaptive Coding and Decoding of…
News: Int’l Gamco v. Multimedia Games (PENDING)
From Form 10-Q, dated 5/10/05, as filed with the SEC. International Gamco, Inc. v. Multimedia Games (PENDING) S.D. Cal. International Gamco, Inc. International Gamco, Inc., or Gamco, claiming certain rights in United…
Update: Davidson & Associates v. Internet Gateway – Confirmed on Appeal
In a decision with ramifications for reverse engineering of software, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s decision to bar “add-on” technology being used to…
Case: Universal v. Nintendo (2nd Cir. 1984) [TM]
Universal City Studios v. Nintendo Co. Ltd. 746 F.2d 112 (2nd Cir. 1984) Tanks, soldiers, countless helicopters, and even Godzilla were no match for King Kong, so how did Nintendo manage to…
Case: Atari v. North American Phillips Consumer Electronics (C) [7th Cir.] 1982
Atari, Inc. v. North American Philips Consumer Electronics Corp., 672 F.2d 607 (7th Cir. 1982) In this early case regarding copyright protection of video games, the court addresses the issue of determining…