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Activision Blizzard Sued For Patent Infringement Over WoW, CoD

Posted by Soulskill on from the good-luck-with-that dept.

New submitter thunderdanp writes with news that a company called Worlds Inc. has filed a patent suit against Activision Blizzard, targeting World of Warcraft and the Call of Duty series. The patents in question describe a "System and Method for Enabling Users to Interact in a Virtual Space." Worlds Inc. is quite glad that "their" technology has "helped the businesses of virtual worlds gaming and the sale of virtual goods to grow into a multibillion-dollar industry" — but now they want a cut.

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  1. Re:First sentence of the first article by Fned · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow.

    They REALLY don't know what they're doing.