RuneScape Developer Victorious Over Patent Troll

An anonymous reader writes "Gamasutra reports that a US District Court judge has dismissed the patent infringement lawsuit brought against RuneScape developer Jagex discussed previously on Slashdot. Judge David Folsom last week dismissed online chat company Paltalk's claims that Jagex infringed on Paltalk patents relating to online network communications. The judge's ruling only resolved Jagex's case. Microsoft settled with Paltalk for an undisclosed sum in 2009 after the online communication technology company sued over the patents in a $90 million claim. That settlement opened the door to Paltalk's claims against other game companies, including Blizzard, Turbine, SOE and NCSoft. Paltalk alleged in the Jagex-related suit that it had suffered 'tens of millions of dollars' in damages. Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard said in a statement, 'It is exceedingly unfortunate that the US legal system can force a company with a sole presence in Cambridge, UK to incur a seven-digit expense and waste over a year of management time on a case with absolutely no merit,' and that Jagex 'will not hesitate to vigorously defend our position against any patent trolls who bring lawsuits against us in the future.'"

Comments

So would you say

[Anonymous Coward]

RuneScape managed to run+escape the patent troll?

Re:So would you say

[jpate]

How Insightful, Interesting, and Informative of you!

Re:So would you say

[Anonymous Coward]

funny

New Boss

[SnakeEater251]

In a few weeks, Jagex will release an update to Runescape that will allow you to fight a brand new boss, Paltalk the giant Troll.

Re:New Boss

[Anonymous Coward]

Paltalk the giant Troll.

Will he be some worthless lvl 1 cannon fodder that only drops poop? ;)

Re:I know what will make it better

[Ndymium]

Strange. I have all this money lying around on a dormant account in the Bank of Nigeria that I'd like to donate, but nobody wants to take me seriously!

Re:what i want to know

[ooshna]

Dwarf Fortress anyone?

Re:Anyone in the US can sue a foreign company

[Ihmhi]

I sincerely apologize for the lawyers of our country and the foul people who would wield them.

We've been trying to thin the lawyer's numbers for some years now, but silver prices are astronomical and there's a shortage on ammunition lately.

Re:what i want to know

[ginbot462]

I can't find anything more recent, but Habbo Hotel is the only thing I see competing with WoW.

http://gigaom.com/2008/06/26/warcraft-no-longer-worlds-biggest-mmo/

... I don't know how you suckered me into doing your research for you. Are you a grad professor? ...