Activision countersues Worlds Inc.

patents are bullshit and only used to ensure monopolies and hopes of being able to abuse loopholes in outdated laws. It used to be to protect inventors from having their stuff stolen by big companies, but this has turned into a circus for some time now and laws need to be seriously updated to stop this abuse from going on with PATENT LAWSUITS.

The basis of these lawsuits is too technical for me to understand.

Gosh the patent system is so outdated when it allows situations like this. I mean, even the original suit and the counter thereafter. Its hard to innovate when people have rights to "double-click" and things like this.

How many worlds did they sue?

patents: dissolving free market since 1790

I have a patent on your Air you breath, all owes me your moneys. HAA HAA HAA HAAA.

I hope Activision wins.

So When Two Assholes Sue Each Other, Would You Call That A Shit Storm?

As much as I sometimes hate on Activision when it comes to patent trolls like this I'm completely in their corner.

I want to play!

Sue Activision? Yeh, Good Luck with that!

CoD: Ghosts 11/10 Game of the Century, thats all that matters! Whoooooooooooo!!!!!

ahhh, patent trolls at their finest. This has been going on for quite some time, yet there's been almost no laws to curb this act. Any attempts to try and stop patent trolls have either failed or have had an extremely low success rate...

Stop buying same old repetitive FPS that doesnt innovate, this company is evil as ****, maybe worse then Microsoft, **** them, we want innovative games, example look how GTA changed and innovated in its own genre, modern FPS is money milking garbage

I don't understand this patent - doesn't every 3D game use 3d navigation? i dont understand this.

how the heck are you going to sue ACTIVISION BLIZZARD. I feel like Worlds Inc has no fucking clue what they just bit off.

Thought maybe the P.C. streak was going to continue a little longer. Ahhh, good to see some good old-fashioned SUING going on!!

Please blizactivision the world is done you with you! Go die quietly in a ditch somewhere.

Patent trolls cannibalizing each other.

For some reason I initially read that headline as "Activision countersues whole world."

Activision is actually a good guy here. Worlds Inc. is clearly a patent troll. Thay patent things for the sole purpose of using them to sue other companies. So Activision counter-suing is basically them saying, "If you really want to try to enforce a stupid patent for unbelievably common interaction, you go right ahead, because we've got your number too." Maybe it'll be enough of a threat to get Worlds to shut up permanently.

What's with all the lawsuits this year?

It's ridiculous you can even patent that kind of stuff.

So Patent No. 6,014,145 is a patent on good camera angles?

What the actual **** is going on here?

We have two companies suing each other with software patents for designs that are ridiculously obvious and have been around long before either of these patents were filed.

The USA truly has the dumbest laws in this area... ever.

why not... share ??!!

In other news... EA hasn't taken over the world yet thank god.

Amusing, but I would argue that "Navigation with optimum viewpoints in three-dimensional workspace interactive displays having three-dimensional objects with collision barriers" and "Climability: property for objects in 3-D virtual environments" are obvious today and therefore not patentable.

Reminds me of the lawsuit that Newegg won earlier this year against patent troll Soverain over its use of an online shopping cart. The court ruled that Soverain's claims were "invalid for obviousness".

Yes, "obviousness" is a serious matter in the patent world.