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5 Jan 2023, 10:44 pm by Florian Mueller
The defenses, however, were the same, and will again be identical.I took note of the constitutional challenges and may have been the only commentator so far to put them into the context of the Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. [read post]
29 Dec 2022, 10:38 am by Florian Mueller
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the United States is--at this point--opposing Microsoft's $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard King, thereby supporting Sony, which actually isn't even afraid of Microsoft's GamePass subscription service (though it pretends otherwise). [read post]
22 Dec 2022, 11:01 pm by Florian Mueller
For convenience, let me show the two documents first and then compare them:In the Matter of Microsoft Corp., a corporation, and Activision Blizzard, Inc., a corporation: Answer and Defenses of Respondent Microsoft Corp.In the Matter of Microsoft Corp., a corporation, and Activision Blizzard, Inc., a corporation: Answer and Defenses of Respondent Activision Blizzard, Inc.Each complaint has three parts: introduction, item-by-item denials and admissions, and… [read post]
Private video game consumers Tuesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft alleging the company’s intended purchase of Activision Blizzard, Inc., the maker of popular video game “Call of Duty,” for $68.7 billion creates a monopoly within the video game industry. [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 12:40 pm by Zak Gowen
  The Biden administration accused Meta Platforms Inc of trying to buy its way to dominance in the metaverse, kicking off a high-profile trial to try to prevent the Facebook parent from buying virtual reality app developer Within Inc. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 3:10 am by Florian Mueller
Seen through that lens, the FTC's complaint In the Matter of Microsoft Corporation, a corporation, and Activision Blizzard, Inc., a corporation (PDF) comes across as anemic from start to finish, unusually repetitive for such a short document, and generally unsubstantiated. [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 12:00 pm by Florian Mueller
The FTC website lists the related adjudicative proceeding before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ)--i.e., this proceeding will take place within the same agency--under matter/file number 2210077, In the Matter of Microsoft Corporation, a corporation, and Activision Blizzard, Inc., a corporation. [read post]
1 Dec 2022, 1:58 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Class V stock was a publicly traded “tracking stock” that tracked the performance of VMware, Inc. [read post]
30 Nov 2022, 5:02 am by Zak Gowen
Federal Trade Commission is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft Corp’s $69 billion takeover bid for video game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc, Politico reported, citing people familiar with the matter. [read post]
29 Nov 2022, 7:00 am by Sandy Rokhlin
Patent No. 10,376,793: Videogame system and method that enables characters to earn virtual fans by completing secondary objectives Issued August 13, 2019, to Activision Publishing Inc. [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 9:53 pm by Florian Mueller
Some companies like Epic Games and Spotify started to speak out in public, and later brought antitrust complaints with regulatory authorities and/or (in Epic's case) private antitrust litigation.Is Elon Musk also contemplating the next step--"a possible standoff with Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc. [read post]
29 Oct 2022, 12:00 am by Florian Mueller
Three weeks ago, Epic Games and Match Group (the operator of Tinder and other dating services) put forward amended complaints that allege a per se antitrust violation consisting in Google's agreements under which it paid hundreds of millions of dollars to game makers like Activision Blizzard King in order to ensure their loyalty to the Google Play Store. [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 8:27 am by Dennis Crouch
Activision Blizzard Inc., No. 21-1554 SawStop Holding LLC v. [read post]
30 Sep 2022, 2:02 pm by Aaron Mackey
For example, the table shows that sometimes Uniloc licenses patents for as little as $2,500, while Activision Blizzard, Inc. paid $3.5 million for a license. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 4:49 am by Dennis Crouch
Full Scope Enablement in Amgen Inc. v. [read post]