Microsoft Wins Multiplayer Patent Case
August 4th, 2010
Microsoft has emerged victorious from a multiplayer gaming-related patent lawsuit dating back to 2004.
Harold Milton Jr. filed legal action against Microsoft and Sony for allegedly infringing on a patent, ‘Apparatus and method for electrically connecting remotely located video games’, referring to an invention enabling “two or more players playing the same video game to compete with each other without using the same physical video game which alleviates the necessity of proximity of the players”.