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Amazon, Microsoft, Major League Baseball, All Added to Virtual Gaming Campaign
Virtual Gaming Technologies LLC continues to add cases to the litigation campaign that it started last month. The most recently named defendants are Amazon (2:15-cv-02096), Big Fish Games (2:15-cv-02095), Microsoft (2:15-cv-02092), and Major League Baseball (2:15-cv-02094). Each suit in the campaign asserts two patents (5,860,862; 6,193,610) generally related to real time interaction with contest systems over the Internet against the defendants’ web-accessible gaming platforms and products. Earlier this month, Virtual Gaming added Activision Blizzard, Konami, and Take-Two Interactive Software to a list of defendants that already included Electronic Arts, ESPN, FanDuel, Fox Sports, NFL, Yahoo, and Zynga, among others.
December 17, 2015
Virtual Gaming Campaign Tags EA and Zynga
Electronic Arts (2:15-cv-02053) and Zynga (2:15-cv-02054) have been added to the litigation campaign that Virtual Gaming Technologies LLC just kicked off in November. All of the suits in the campaign assert two patents (5,860,862; 6,193,610) generally related to real time interaction with contest systems over the Internet against the defendants’ web-accessible gaming platforms. Prior defendants include ESPN, FanDuel, Fox Sports, NFL, and Yahoo.
December 10, 2015
Virtual Gaming Campaign Hits Three More, Including Yahoo
Last week, Virtual Gaming Technologies LLC initiated its first litigation campaign, targeting the web-accessible gaming platforms of several companies. This week, the NPE adds three more suits to the campaign, asserting the same two patents (5,860,862; 6,193,610) against the gaming platforms of Fantasy Aces (2:15-cv-01752), Stars Fantasy Sports (2:15-cv-01751), and Yahoo (2:15-cv-01748).
November 10, 2015
New Texas NPE Tees Off Interactive Gaming Platform Campaign
Newly formed NPE Virtual Gaming Technologies LLC has initiated its first litigation campaign, filing seven lawsuits that assert two patents (5,860,862; 6,193,610) against gaming platforms accessible via the websites of seven companies: Draft Day (2:15-cv-01713), DraftKings (2:15-cv-01706), DraftPot (2:15-cv-01712), ESPN (2:15-cv-01714), FanDuel (2:15-cv-01707), Fox Sports (2:15-cv-01706), and NFL (2:15-cv-01715). The patents generally relate to real time interaction with contest systems over the Internet.
November 5, 2015