1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. F.3d
  4. 959 F.3d
  5. 959 F.3d 1091 (2020)
 

MCRO, INC. v. BANDAI NAMCO GAMES AMERICA INC.

2019-1557.

959 F.3d 1091 (2020)

MCRO, INC., dba Planet Blue, Plaintiff-Appellant v. BANDAI NAMCO GAMES AMERICA INC., Treyarch Corporation, Defendants Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC, Sucker Punch Productions, LLC, Infinity Ward, Inc., Lucasarts, A Division of Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. LLC, Activision Publishing, Inc., Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., Naughty Dog, Inc., Electronic Arts, Inc., Disney Interactive Studios, Inc., Square Enix, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

Decided: May 20, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Stewart Raskin , King & Wood Mallesons LLP, New York, NY, for plaintiff-appellant. Also represented by Michael Devincenzo , John Francis Petrsoric , Robert Whitman ; Marc Aaron Fenster , Paul Anthony Kroeger , Russ August & Kabat, Los Angeles, CA.

John D. Garretson , Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Kansas City, MO, for defendants-appellees Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC, Sucker Punch Productions, LLC, Naughty Dog, Inc. Also represented by Beth A. Larigan .

Sonal Naresh Mehta , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for defendants-appellees Infinity Ward, Inc., Activision Publishing, Inc., Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., Electronic Arts, Inc.

Evan Finkel , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellees LucasArts, Disney Interactive Studios, Inc. Also represented by James Chang .

Benjamin J. Fox , Morrison & Foerster LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellee Square Enix, Inc. Also represented by Wendy J. Ray .

Before Reyna, Mayer, and Taranto, Circuit Judges.

McRO, Inc., d/b/a Planet Blue (McRO) brought this case against more than a dozen video game developers (the Developers), alleging that the Developers infringed three method claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,611,278, owned by McRO. The district court held the claims invalid for ineligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101, but we reversed...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases