Gaikai sued for alleged streaming patent infringement
T5 Labs is suing Gaikai for infringing on its patent, which covers sharing a GPU between two or more programs.
Cloud gaming service Gaikai hasn't really made waves since it was bought by Sony in July. But now the company is facing a court battle with Delaware-based T5 Labs, which alleges that Gaikai infringed on its patent.
The complaint (via Gamasutra) claims that T5's patent for "Sharing a Graphical Processing Unit Between a Plurality of Programs" has been infringed upon by Gaikai's game streaming technology. The claim goes on to state that it sent Gaikai written notice of the infringement, and that the company continued to knowingly infringe afterwards. The company had previously considered legal action against OnLive for the same type of technology, but hasn't pursued a case.
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replySteve Watts posted a new article, Gaikai sued for alleged streaming patent infringement.
T5 Labs is suing Gaikai for infringing on its patent, which covers sharing a GPU between two or more programs.-
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I read the patent, and it's more specifically talking about transmitting stuff from a pool of GPUs to a remote device.
That said, the claims are written so broadly that they'd cover any remote use of GPUs to do graphics; it's ridiculous that you could claim this given people sell hardware specifically for it.
I hate our patent system.-
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