EA Sued For Patent Infringement In Apex Legends And Anthem
https://segmentnext.com/2019/10/04/ea-sued-patent-infringement/
Electronic Arts (EA) has been sent a legal notice to appear in the United
States district court of Texas over at least two counts of patent
infringement.
The lawsuit was filed by Stone Interactive Ventures (SIV) last month, where
the plaintiff noted that it currently holds the rights to US7593864B2 and
US8516473B2 in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. EA is required
by law to obtain a license to operate on the said patents, which the
publishing giant decided not to. Hence, EA must either obtain a license from
the limited liability company — pay mounting royalties — or cease its
ongoing infringement, at least that’s what the lawsuit alleges.
The patents in question are generally related to management and ownership of
virtual properties, and distribution and sale of program objects. Apex
Legends and Anthem were both quoted as examples through which EA continues to
violate trademark law — specifically, through their in-game currencies.
Apex Legends and Anthem have Apex Coins and Anthem Shards respectively that
can be used to purchase cosmetics from an in-game store to customize the
appearance of weapons and characters. SIV argued that the players are also
infringing on the same patents by obtaining virtual properties through these
virtual currencies.
In addition, the virtual properties can further be transferred or shared
in-game, which is a violation of “purchase and ownership of property rights”
as mentioned in the patent bylaws.
The lawsuit failed to mention any sum that the plaintiff wants in damages,
leaving it to the court of Texas should a ruling be cast in SIV’s favor.
The world of patent infringement is a messy and complicated one. SIV, from
what information is available, is basically a patent assertion entity that
purchases patents to profit, not to use. Also, SIV has made claims on behalf
of Intellectual Ventures Assets (IVA), the rightful assignee of the patents
mentioned in the lawsuit, casting SIV as a possible shell company to duel
these legal matters.
Making it even worse is that IVA owns about 40,000 patents with no intention
of using them anytime soon. It’s essentially a threat to aspiring
entrepreneurs and large-scale technology companies.
EA, while the defendant in this case, has also been securing patents that can
drive microtransactions in the future. More recently, the publishing giant
was spotted to have obtained a patent through an asset acquisition for a
system that creates a sense of urgency to make in-game purchases as soon as
possible.
The reason being that the virtual items decrease in value over time based on
the number of purchases made. Hence, if players want to reap maximum
benefits, they will want to be the first ones to make the purchase — a kind
of day-one microtransactions.
EA also patented a technology that fiddles with matchmaking. Such a system
can observe player-behavior (skill, experience, sportsmanship, and other
preferences) before pitting them against each other. By matching a novice
against an experienced player, the system would basically be encouraging the
novice to emulate the decked-out player by purchasing items being used by
them.
Hence, pushing microtransactions through enticement and a false perception of
superiority, something that many other game publishers besides EA are gunning
for as well.
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EA被起诉专利侵权，而例子是Apex 英雄和冒险圣歌。
起诉的是Stone Interactive Ventures这间公司。
而相关的两个专利主要和两个功能有关，就是：
Management and ownership of virtual properties
虚拟财产的管理及所有权
Distribution and sale of program objects
程序物件的分发和销售
嗯！我想有些人己经懂了，就是商城相关功能。
所以 SIV (Stone Interactive Ventures) 也说了.....
SIV argued that the players are also infringing on the same patents by
obtaining virtual properties through these virtual currencies.
使用这些功能的玩家也侵犯了专利。
而SIV目前看来就是间买下专利用后来告人盈利的公司，本身没在使用专利。
然后SIV在诉讼的内容是代表专利的合法受让人 Intellectual Ventures Assets 这间公司
提出索赔，也就是SIV其实可能是IVA的空壳公司而已，功能是用来处理这些法律上的事。
专利的世界真是高深呀！
有没有专业大佬要来说明一下，我其实也是看的一知半解。

专利蟑螂？？？

不清楚 法律的世界太高深了

就跟在八卦钓鱼,然后告人赚和解费的蟑螂一样八卦的是个人工作室,这是公司型的专业加强版

这能赢?

不用赢，和解就好了，当EA的诉讼成本>和解金的时候，EA很有可能会直接答应和解

能不能让他告等胜诉了让对方负担全部诉讼费用?

对方只是个空壳公司 随时能抛弃

空壳公司有空成这样喔

所以是商城的哪个功能，通行证那个吗？

那...为啥要是EA,?

直接打专利失效官司比较快

EA有钱啊 EA看起来是小咖吗

EA有钱,但EA有这么好惹吗?

这告不成阿，暴雪那套一堆厂商再用，有够白痴的。

专利蟑螂+1

EA是不好惹，只是告其他家有可能被干爆，但EA要钱不要脸，开个低于诉讼费的和解金有机会拿到钱这样？

被专利蟑螂搞了

看看就好 美国的专利法律根本就是搞笑的...乱七八糟