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Saturday, May 27, 2006

Stream Theory patent infringement suit

Gamasutra reported the latest patent infringement case to hit the video game world. Stream Theory, a service that allows for download of over 550 PC titles licensed from 55 publishers filed in the U.S. Central District Court of California against Softricity, Appsoft and Exent. The suit claims willful infringement of the patent and seeking damages and an injunction.

Filed originally in 1997 and issued in 2002 patent number 6,453,334 describes a
"Method and apparatus to allow remotely located computer programs and/or data to be accessed on a local computer in a secure, time-limited manner, with persistent caching". If successful, Stream Theory's suit could affect the likes of content delivery giants Yahoo, Game Tap and Compcast to name a few.

posted by Mike | 10:22 PM

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