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Video Game Law Blog - 1995
Current issues in video game law.
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Edward Gussin, who had invented an electronic drawing and colouring system, tried to claim that Nintendo's “Mario Paint” infringed his patent [read more]jeudi, 3 août 1995 | David Spratley |
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NTN developed an interactive game played in conjunction with televised football called "QB1", which it licensed to Interactive to sell together with [read more]dimanche, 1 janvier 1995 | David Spratley |
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The defendants, NTDEC and Megasoff Inc., appealed a default judgment issued by the District Court to Nintendo on the basis of copyright and trade-mark infringement [read more]dimanche, 1 janvier 1995 | David Spratley |
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In 1994, Capcom sought a preliminary injunction to prevent Data East from producing, marketing or selling “Fighter's History” anywhere in the [read more]vendredi, 18 mars 1994 | Chris Bennett |
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Midway owned the copyright and related trade-marks for the video game “Mortal Kombat". PIL published a book entitled “Strategies for Mortal [read more]samedi, 1 janvier 1994 | David Spratley |
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Dragon Pacific International was a Taiwanese business which produced and distributed multi-game cartridges for the Nintendo game console. The games stored on [read more]samedi, 1 janvier 1994 | David Spratley |
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Nintendo appealed a District Court ruling that the Game Genie does not violate any Nintendo copyrights. The Game Genie is a device that is placed between the [read more]jeudi, 21 mai 1992 | David Spratley |
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In the course of a copyright infringement suit alleging Omni Video Games had infringed its copyrights in “Pac-Man", “Rally X", and “Galaxian" Midway Manufacturing [read more]lundi, 4 novembre 1991 | Dani Lemon |
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Nintendo applied for a preliminary injunction prohibiting the sale of Game Genies in Canada. Nintendo argued that Camerica was depreciating the goodwill of [read more]mardi, 1 janvier 1991 | Chris Bennett |
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Nintendo sought an order declaring the defendants to be in contempt of a court order restraining them from trading in an infringing multi-game video game [read more]mardi, 1 janvier 1991 | David Spratley |
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The plaintiffs objected to the notice to consumers and terms of a proposed settlement between Nintendo and the fifty state attorneys general over a national [read more]mardi, 1 janvier 1991 | David Spratley |
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Numerous states sued Nintendo under antitrust laws. The parties agreed to settle, and drafted a settlement agreement. The Attorneys General of all 50 states [read more]mardi, 1 janvier 1991 | David Spratley |
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On behalf of retail purchasers in California, the plaintiffs alleged that Nintendo had violated California antitrust laws through its monopoly on video game [read more]lundi, 1 janvier 1990 | David Spratley |
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Accolade and the defendants entered into a licence agreement under which the defendants were to develop the video game "The Duel -- Test Drive II" [read more]lundi, 1 janvier 1990 | David Spratley |
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A mother brought a wrongful death action against TSR, the manufacturer of the pen-and-paper roleplaying game “Dungeons& Dragons”, for the suicide [read more]lundi, 1 janvier 1990 | David Spratley |
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This case addressed the constitutionality of Quebec legislation prohibiting commercial advertising directed at persons less than thirteen years of age. A key [read more]jeudi, 27 avril 1989 | David Spratley |
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This was an action by Nintendo challenging the validity of Magnavox's “Television Gaming Apparatus” patent, issued in 1972, and the infringement [read more]dimanche, 1 janvier 1989 | Dani Lemon |
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This was an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in favour of counterclaims brought by the defendants, [read more]mercredi, 1 janvier 1986 | David Spratley |
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This case involved two gorillas, King Kong and Donkey Kong, and the rights of their respective owners, plaintiff Universal City Studios, Inc. (“Universal”), [read more]mardi, 1 janvier 1985 | David Spratley |
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Universal City Studios (“Universal”), claiming ownership of the trade-mark “King Kong”, sued Nintendo Co. Ltd. and Nintendo of America, [read more]dimanche, 1 janvier 1984 | David Spratley |
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Atari and Midway obtained an injunction against Tryom, whose game “Gobbleman” or “Nibbleman” embodied characters, symbols, and non-functional [read more]jeudi, 17 novembre 1983 | David Spratley |
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This 1983 judgment of the District Court of Nebraska found the defendants liable for copyright and trademark infringement of three Midway coin-operated arcade [read more]jeudi, 1 septembre 1983 | Dani Lemon |
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Arctic International sold two types of circuit boards for coin-operated video games. The first increased the rate of play of "Galaxian" a video [read more]samedi, 1 janvier 1983 | Chris Bennett |
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This was one of the first Canadian cases to consider whether copyright could attach to the source code of a game. The defendant's game units would flash [read more]mercredi, 8 décembre 1982 | David Spratley |
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Magnavox claimed that Mattel had, through the manufacture, use and sale of Intellivision video games, infringed Magnavox's “Television Gaming Apparatus” [read more]mercredi, 21 juillet 1982 | Dani Lemon |
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The plaintiff wanted to open a restaurant with forty tables equipped with built-in coin-operated video games, thus allowing patrons to dine and blast space invaders [read more]vendredi, 1 janvier 1982 | David Spratley |
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Nintendo sought and received an injunction against Elcon, who had been importing circuit boards manufactured by Falcon into the United States. Falcon was a past [read more]vendredi, 1 janvier 1982 | David Spratley |
| Williams Electronics Inc. v. Artic International is a key case which established that copyright exists in video games.
Williams Electronics manufactured and sold a coin-operated electronic video [read more]vendredi, 1 janvier 1982 | Chris Bennett |
| The defendant published a game called “Jawbreaker” which was created by John Harris. Harris admitted to getting the idea from “Pac-Man”. Jawbreaker was already being marketed [read more]lundi, 28 décembre 1981 | David Spratley |
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