April 24, 2025
Epic Games failed to persuade a Federal Circuit panel on Thursday to undo the patent board's rejection of the video game company's efforts to invalidate patents that Fortnite's in-game communication programs were accused of infringing.
May 22, 2023
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has rejected Epic Games' attempt to knock out patents that its blockbuster Fortnite video game was accused of infringing, with a dissenting judge accusing his colleagues of giving "too much weight to the extrinsic evidence," namely the dictionary definition of the word "portal."