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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

UKIPO Decides Patentability of Computer Games in the UK Involving Real-World Player Interactions

A recent decision issued by the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) concerning a patent application filed by a game developer company Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. (Bandai Namco) serves as a useful example for informing...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Federal Circuit Affirms Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal Because the Patent Was Directed to the Patent-Ineligible Abstract Idea of Teaching...

The Federal Circuit recently affirmed a district court’s dismissal because the claims directed to an interactive video game for learning to play guitar were patent-ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. In its ruling, the court...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Barbaro Technologies, LLC v. Niantic, Inc. (N.D. Cal. 2020)

Claims for an Interactive 3D Virtual Environment Found Patent Ineligible - In the field of computer gaming, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently granted Defendants' Rule 12 motion...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Video Game Network Patent Found to Be Patent Eligible – Not an Abstract Idea

The Federal District Court in Delaware recently denied a motion to dismiss a patent infringement case involving a video game networking technology patent based on the patent allegedly being invalid for lack of...more

Polsinelli

Automatic Animation Software Method Found Patentable under 35 U.S.C. § 101

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Since the Supreme Court's decision two years ago in Alice v. CLS Bank, courts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have found a large percentage of software and computer-related inventions to claim abstract ideas and not...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Federal Circuit Highlights Claim Construction in Patent Eligibility Analysis

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The case demonstrates that the eligibility analysis is highly fact-specific and dependent on properly construed claims. In McRO, Inc. v. Bandai Namco Games America Inc., a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...more

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