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Frosty Treats, Inc. v. Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc., 426 F.3d 1001 (8th Cir. 2005), [1] is a trademark case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that the name of one of the largest ice cream truck franchise companies in the United States was neither distinctive nor famous enough to receive protection against being used in a violent video game.
Williams, and Atari, Inc. v. North American Philips Consumer Electronics Corp. [8] Atari, Inc. v. Amusement World was the first copyright case where the court compared the numerous similarities and differences between two video games, [7] as well as the first time that a court applied complex copyright principles to video games, such as the ...
The case was subsequently settled out of court, with Spry Fox gaining ownership of the Yeti Town property by the end of 2012. [11] Since these cases in 2012, legal scholars have found that courts have been more scrutinizing of look-and-feel in cases involving video game clones. [18]
Google went to appeals court Monday in an attempt to convince a three-judge panel to overturn a jury's verdict declaring its app store for Android smartphones as an illegal monopoly and block the ...
Sony drew support from fellow video game hardware manufacturers Nintendo, Sega, and 3dfx Interactive, while Connectix was backed by fellow software firms and trade associations. [2] The district court awarded Sony an injunction blocking Connectix from copying or using the Sony BIOS code in the development of the Virtual Game Station for Windows ...
The state Supreme Court switched from Democratic to Republican control in last fall’s elections.
Still, the court’s ruling last week that Justice Philip Berger Jr. can sit in judgment of cases involving his father, state Senate leader Phil Berger, is a stunning display of how the court’s ...
Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 564 U.S. 786 (2011), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that struck down a 2005 California law banning the sale of certain violent video games to children without parental supervision.