March 18, 2022
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap has rebuffed two video game developers' bid for a new trial after a jury held that Sony's PlayStation console didn't rip off their patented technology, finding that the developers couldn't contest claim constructions that they'd previously agreed to.
December 08, 2021
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap has shot down Sony's argument that a pair of video game patents should be invalidated in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice ruling, two months after a jury in his Marshall, Texas, courthouse found that Sony's Playstation console doesn't infringe them.
October 07, 2021
An Eastern District of Texas jury on Thursday found that Sony's Playstation console and video games did not infringe two Infernal Technology LLC patents relating to lighting and shadowing techniques in computer graphics.
November 20, 2020
Eastern District of Texas Judge Rodney Gilstrap announced Friday he's postponing all jury trials until March, a decision he was reluctant to make but felt necessary due to the rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Texas and the travel restrictions out-of-state attorneys and witnesses were facing.
November 18, 2020
After a plaintiffs' lawyer tested positive for COVID-19 in a patent case against Sony involving computer graphics, the electronics giant has urged an Eastern District of Texas judge to hold an upcoming pretrial conference by video, while the plaintiffs argue that the hearing should go forward in-person because the infected attorney won't be there.