July 25, 2017
A California federal judge Tuesday denied Valve Corp.'s bid to dismiss or transfer a suit alleging it infringed lip-sync animation technology, rebuffing the video game company's claim that it didn't have an improper venue argument until the U.S. Supreme Court's recent TC Heartland decision.
September 24, 2014
A California federal judge on Monday invalidated patent claims in an infringement suit targeting Electronic Arts Inc., Disney Interactive Studios and nearly two dozen other video game studios over lip-sync animation technology, ruling the patents only described an abstract set of rules.