Nintendo Faces Another Patent Infringement Suit for Wii Controller
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, New Complaint, News, Nintendo, Patent Infringement | No Comments »At this point, one must ask how many pre-existing patents could have possibly covered different elements of Nintendo's "revolutionary" Wii controller. After getting hammered with a $21 million patent infringement verdict in May, Nintendo will once again find itself ...
IP and Virtual Worlds
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, MMORPGs, Nintendo, Second Life | No Comments »Ross Dannenberg, of Banner & Witcoff, is in the middle of a 3-part series discussing the interaction of intellectual property law and virtual worlds. Part 2, discussing patents, was posted today and provides interesting reading for those who are ...
One Law Student’s Take on Video Game Copyright
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property | No Comments »As I was browsing the web and doing my best to avoid fretting over looming exams, I came across the curiously named blog Banana Pepper Martinis. Banana Pepper Martinis is apparently the personal blog of L. B. Jeffries, a ...
More on the First Amendment in Virtual Worlds
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »What do Virtual Strip Clubs, Grand Theft Auto, Trademarks, and the First Amendment have in Common?
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 Posted in Appeals, Intellectual Property, News | 4 Comments »Answer: E.S.S. Entertainment 2000, Inc. v. Rock Star Videos, Inc. In this recently decided case, The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit considered "whether a producer of a video game in the 'Grand Theft Auto' series has a ...
Super Obama World
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Posted in Politics | No Comments »Thanks, GamePolitics!
