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Activision Blizzard Gets Patent Win

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Santa Monica-based Activision Blizzard reported a win in court late Thursday, saying that the United States District Court, Central District of California has invalidated all patent claims asserted by McRO, Inc. activision blizzard patent lawsuit legal mcro planet blue callofduty synchronization uspto' dba Planet Blue.

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Activision Publishing Countersues Companies

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Santa Monica-based videogame developer Activision said late Friday that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against two companies. Activision said the lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Activision claims the two companies have infringed on a U.S. Activision claims the two companies have infringed on a U.S.

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Irvine Firm Goes On Patent Offensive

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Irvine-based Uniloc USA , a firm which develops anti-fraud technology based on physical device recognition, said this morning that it has filed a patent infringement suit against Sony America, McAfee, Activision, Quark, Aspyr Media, and Borland Software. Tags: uniloc patent infringement physical security fraud legal.

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Uniloc Sues Adobe, Symantec, Others

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Irvine-based Uniloc USA the technology firm which filed suit against Sony America, McAfee, Activision, Quark, Aspyr Media, and Borland Software in July over its patents, is ramping up its patent lawsuits, saying today that it has filed suit against Adobe Systems Inc., Tags: uniloc patent legal lawsuit security.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. Howard Marks , Co-Founder at Activision / StartEngine. A 20-year industry veteran, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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He was the founder and CEO of Acclaim Games (now owned by Disney), and the co-founder of Activision and Chairman of Activision Studios (1991-1997). Your former Activision early hire Scott Lahman is not on this list as CEO of Gogii/TextPlus. I hired him at Activision and he is an amazing entrepreneur. 13 comments.