U.S. Supreme Court
Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com LLC et al.
Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com LLC et al.Supreme Court of the United States On January 8th, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in Fourth Estate…
CERT ALERT: Supreme Court to revisit scandalous trademarks (Iancu v. Brunetti)
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the federal government can refuse to grant legal protection to a trademark because officials find it to be vulgar or lewd. Taking up a…
BOOM! Did you feel it? E.D. Texas will no longer be the patent lawsuit capital of the US
From Law360: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday put tighter restrictions on where patent owners can file infringement lawsuits, a decision that upends nearly 30 years of established practice and will likely…
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…
Case Analysis: Sony v. Connectix
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. v. Connectix Corp. 203 F.3d 596 (9th Cir. 2000) I. Background Connectix Corporation created and sold a software program called “Virtual Game Station” (VGS), an emulator of…
Case: Bilski v. Kappos (at last!)
In its long awaited decision, the United States Supreme Court has ruled in the Bilski case. The Supreme Court affirmed the Federal Circuit’s decision, but on different grounds, holding that Mr. Bilski’s…
Case Update: Anascape, Ltd. v. Nintendo of America Inc.
On Tuesday, April 13, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of Nintendo in Anascape, Ltd. v. Nintendo of America Inc. (Docket No. 2008-1500), a patent…
Case: In re Bilski limits patentable subject matter
While not strictly a video game case, the Federal Circuit today (October 30, 2008) released its decision in In re Bilski regarding the limits on patentable subject matter, which could certainly affect…
Case: KSR Int’l v Teleflex (S.Ct. 2007) [P]
KSR International Co. v. Teleflex, Inc. U.S. Supreme Court, April 30, 2007 While technically not a video game case, this landmark Supreme Court case just (expectedly) rocked the patent world. The technology:…