April 28, 2025
Administrative patent judges have agreed to wipe out three mobile video game software patents asserted against game developer Playrix but split on prior art arguments challenging two claims in a related fourth patent.
December 02, 2024
A ruling from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director changing the meaning of a claim in a video game patent was enough for the agency's administrative board to now move forward with a challenge over patented software cited in a Texas lawsuit lodged against mobile game developer Playrix.
August 27, 2024
The director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says a split administrative patent board got a phrase wrong when it ruled in April not to institute a review of a video game patent, ordering it to rethink its decision.
October 13, 2023
A Texas federal judge has declined to toss Flip Phone Games Inc.'s suit claiming that Irish game developer Playrix infringed its patents related to uploading content on and providing hot spots for mobile video games, finding that Flip Phone Games showed that the claims in its patents weren't well known or conventional at the time of filing.