August 19, 2024
Video-game developer Activision Blizzard Inc. has settled a dispute with San Francisco incubator Acceleration Bay Group Inc. after a Delaware federal jury found Activision infringed two patents with its World of Warcraft and Call of Duty games and owed $23.4 million, according to papers filed in federal court on Friday.
May 06, 2024
Video game developer Activision Blizzard owes Acceleration Bay $18 million for infringing a patent with its "World of Warcraft" game and an additional $5.4 million for infringing another patent in "Call of Duty," a Delaware federal jury found Friday.
August 24, 2017
A Delaware federal judge on Thursday dismissed Acceleration Bay LLC's patent suit against three major video-game developers with respect to games they developed for Sony gaming platforms, saying Acceleration had no standing to sue over those games.
October 05, 2016
Activision Blizzard and several other software developers urged Delaware's federal court on Tuesday to invalidate three patents in a suit brought by Acceleration Bay LCC accusing the video game companies of infringing six multiplayer technology patents, saying the patents are not valid under Alice.