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IBM wins $44.9m in infringement lawsuit against Zynga (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TIL that Zynga still exists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

They are still a pretty big deal.

Take-Two Interactive announced in January 2022 its intent to buy Zynga for $12.7 billion. The deal was completed in May 2022.

According to Take-Two Interactive, about 10% of the world's population plays Zynga's games every month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zynga

For context, that buyout value is $4.5 billion more than Microsoft paid for ZeniMax Media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_video_game_mergers_and_acquisitions

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

IBM has won its 2022 patent infringement lawsuit against Zynga.

Other games accused of infringing IBM's copyright include

Copyright infringement and patent infringement are two different things. I'm assuming that this is actually a patent infringement case.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think this is the patent IBM is suing over

Seems to be about pre-loading ads to a user's device. As with most software patents, it sounds like the vaguest possible wording that covers about a million things

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Invalidate and permanently remove the capability to patent software.

It's exclusively idiotic bullshit like this.