September 11, 2015
A California federal judge on Friday ordered Segan LLC to pay $1.19 million in attorneys' fees to Zynga Inc. and additional sanctions for filing a "totally unreasonable" infringement suit over a patent covering character icons that can interact with websites.
August 27, 2015
A California federal judge bashed Segan LLC and its counsel, Blank Rome LLP, Thursday for filing a "totally unreasonable" infringement suit against Zynga Inc. over a patent covering character icons that can interact with websites, but said he wasn't sure it was enough to justify $1 million in sanctions.
May 28, 2015
Zynga Inc. on Wednesday urged a California federal judge to not let Segan LLC and its counsel, Blank Rome LLP, delay a ruling on sanctions over a "frivolous" patent suit accusing Zynga of ripping off website-interacting characters, arguing the case has already gone on too long.
April 22, 2015
Zynga Inc. urged a California federal judge to sanction Segan LLC and its counsel, Blank Rome LLP, for filing a "frivolous" infringement suit over a patent covering the use and design of characters that can interact with websites, saying Tuesday that Zynga's games "work nothing like the patented technology."
April 01, 2015
A California federal judge indicated Wednesday that he's likely to nix Segan LLC's case accusing several Zynga Inc. games of infringing a patent on using and designing characters that can interact with websites, saying that under his interpretation of the patent, Zynga's games function differently and don't infringe.
February 02, 2015
After questioning the fairness of allowing Segan LLC to update allegations that Zynga Inc.'s online games infringe a network-display patent, a California federal judge on Friday nevertheless approved Segan's bid to amend its infringement theories ahead of the case's summary judgment phase.
January 29, 2015
A California federal judge on Thursday bashed technology development company Segan LLC's bid to update allegations that Zynga Inc.'s online games infringed a network-display patent, saying it "doesn't seem fair" for Segan to change its infringement theories so soon before the case's summary judgment phase.