Sony Loses $18.5 Million in Patent Lawsuit Ruling
Sony will be forced to pay $18.5 million in damages to a company called Agere Systems for a patent violation on a "wireless local area network...
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Capcom has won a lawsuit over film production company MKR Group, who alleged that Capcom stole from MKR's Dawn of the Dead (1978) to make Dead...
READ MORE >"It is one of those situations where you have to take a little time to accept and work around the ..."
see all 26 commentsBrash Sued by Two Studios for Unpaid Work
Brash Entertainment, the licensed game publisher which shut down last week, has been sued by two of its contracted studios for work that has gone...
READ MORE >"what a bunch of retards. who thought making games based off of movies did so well. There have ..."
Add a commentNintendo Served With Motion Control Patent Lawsuit
Nintendo, which has been hit with a plethora of patent lawsuits in the last few years, has been served another: a "small Ohio technology company"...
READ MORE >"They got no hope like you said nintendo have worked on this for year's there is no way they ..."
see all 15 commentsEA Hit With Two More DRM Class-Action Lawsuits
Electronic Arts is the recipient of two additional lawsuits related to SecuROM DRM technology, this time in relation to Spore Creature Creator and...
READ MORE >"See that's why I said "I never INTENTIONALLY buy anything from these companies" Other than my ..."
see all 45 commentsTHQ Sues Activision Over Baja Box Art
Publisher THQ has sued fellow publisher Actvision, claiming the box art for Activision's Score International Baja 1000 is too similar to that of...
READ MORE >"Thanks for revisiting this thread. Yep probably not worth the bother really. I just wanted to ..."
see all 45 commentsTake-Two Hit With $50M Lawsuit From Former Executive
Robert Alexander, a former board member of publisher Take-Two, has sued the company for $50 million, alleging that Take-Two reneged on an oral...
READ MORE >"check out the other 99.9% of cases where judges laughed for 5 mins upon hearing 'oral contract' ..."
see all 17 commentsNvidia / ATI Price Fixing Case Gets $1.7M Settlement
In light of the class action lawsuit that accused hardware makers Nvidia and ATI of fixing prices to keep video card prices artificially high,...
READ MORE >"Yeah.... minus legal fees, which in some case puts the people who sign up for the lawsuit in the ..."
see all 22 commentsSpore DRM Prompts $5M Class Action Lawsuit
The controversy surrounding EA Maxis' PC evolution simulator Spore and its DRM continues to escalate, with studio owner and publisher Electronic...
READ MORE >"Finkelstein Thompson LLP is a law firm that represents consumers who have been harmed by unfair ..."
see all 116 commentsActivision Suing Video Game File-Sharers (Updated)
Updated: GamePolitics is now reporting that the lawsuits are not related to file sharing, according to the attorney representing Activision....
READ MORE >"Makes it seem all the more likely they were selling discs or "backups" or something."
see all 39 commentsSony Fingered in God of War Plagiarism Case
Game maker Sony Computer Entertainment and one-time employee David Jaffe have been named in a lawsuit that accuses both Sony and Jaffe of blatantly...
READ MORE >"if big content has their way with copyright law, that could happen."
see all 63 commentsMicrosoft Fires Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death Whistleblower, May File Lawsuit
Microsoft has faced a great deal of criticism over the widely reported instability of its Xbox 360 console. Now, it's fighting back by firing an...
READ MORE >"Actually, NDA laws only allow for the protection of proprietary information, such as code, ..."
see all 87 commentsOrinda Seeks To Halt PS3 Sales in Blu-ray Patent Suit
Sony is being taken to court over technology purportedly covered in a patent owned by Orinda Intellectual Properties USA, Edge has uncovered....
READ MORE >"The patent office is getting sloppy. They are supposed to deny "General and Broad Spectrum" ..."
see all 10 commentsNintendo Joins 54 Companies in DS Piracy Battle
Nintendo and 54 developers and publishers have filed suit in the Tokyo District Court to block the marketing, sales and importation of DS flash...
READ MORE >"You can't have piracy with out people hacking and cracking the device. Without that kind of base ..."
see all 60 commentsMTV Reponds to Konami's Rock Band Patent Lawsuit; Claims Surprise, 'Substantial Defenses'
MTV has chimed in on Japanese publisher Konami's recent lawsuit, which alleged that MTV subsidiary Harmonix's multi-instrument music title Rock...
READ MORE >"God, the patent and copyright system is so borked in this country."
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"I was thinking that phrasing was a bit trollish. If you haven't heard of Agere or LSI, then you ..."
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