Activision Sued Over Online Multiplayer in Call of Duty, WoW
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oh bullshit, even if the patent is legitimate, there is no fucking way they will win this lawsuit.jeretik said:
Who the fuck thinks this is even necessary? You can't patent 'electronic tournaments' the same way you can't patent regular tournaments, water or eggs.
Well said quote. And, from what I understand from their Portfolio, none of their patents were in relation to VIDEO GAMES, instead they cover Lottery, Casinos, Vending, Magazines, Airlines (priceline.com most known), and Retail.Irridium said:
Most of their ideas seem to be catch systems for getting consumers to go back to the client that uses their product, and some of them are just really bad ideas such as that just encourage compulsive gamblers (lottery through cell phones?!).
AND.....all that Activision has to do to dispute these claims by Walker Digital is to prove they've had ONE single multiplayer game prior to 2002 when the patent was given. Upon doing so, they prove that they already had a basis for their current games and thus cannot be sued after the fact.
I'm going to go patent "carbon-based lifeforms that consume liquid water, solid and semi-solid perishable biological matter and breathe air" then.
You all owe me your souls.
You all owe me your souls.
Too late. I already patented "stuff", "things" and "being stupidly vague in your patents".Fetzenfisch said:
Yes, but more importantly, any multiplayer game does this, as long as it tracks points and there's a single host for the game. So when we were playing Quake and Descent 1 back in the day, this is exactly the technology being used.Bobic said:
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Whups, ninja'd on P3. But to the person saying it needs centralized architecture, the game host provides that.
Activision doesn't have to prove anything to get this lawsuit thrown out. Walker Digital waited too long, vigorously defending the intellectual property in question being an important part of both patent and copyright disputes. this is why a lot of fan projects get shut down, not because the company really thinks they will hurt the bottom line, but because they have to defend their ip or risk losing it. In this case Walker got greedy and waited too long without acting in any way, for Activision to release more titles to include in the lawsuit, rendering the point moot anyway.
It's possible. What's a little more questionable is "will it hold up?"GamesB2 said:
Remember "Edge?"
I'd say a least nobody patented a method to "convert and project a binary image into a format usable for seeing"... oh wait, they did.
Yes, it's a vague patent, it covers computers(originally that was all it covered), digital television, cellphones, some clocks, and probably some stuff I don't even know about.
This patent, and several amazingly vague others, are controlled by a single company. One of the goals of the company is to hold obscenely vague patents to prevent things like this from happening. That company is Microsoft. As it turns out, no company can be all evil.
Yes, it's a vague patent, it covers computers(originally that was all it covered), digital television, cellphones, some clocks, and probably some stuff I don't even know about.
This patent, and several amazingly vague others, are controlled by a single company. One of the goals of the company is to hold obscenely vague patents to prevent things like this from happening. That company is Microsoft. As it turns out, no company can be all evil.
GO ahead, I don't make use of gravity, it simply effects me and everything around me... You can't sue me for something I can't control. MWAHAHAHASilentBobsThoughts said: