"The plaintiff is Worlds.com, and the prosecution could theoretically be extended to all MMOG."
The lawsuit was initiated patent infringement. To be sued in court is NCsoft, the Korean software house which for years has been producing and distributing MMORPG. The patent was filed in 2000 and is entitled "Systems and methods to enable users to interact in a virtual space."
NCsoft would have broken with the following games: City of Heroes, City of Villains, Dungeon Runners, Exteel, Guild Wars, Lineage, Lineage II and Tablula Rasa. Curious about the presence in the list of Lineage, MMORPG released in 1998, while the patent was filed only two years later.
"The present invention relates broadly scalable architecture designed for a world of virtual three-dimensional and multi-user interactive. Users interact using an alter ego whose features are determined by themselves and are located within an area in they can access through a client software, is the vague description of the Worlds.com.
The patent appears to actually be able to report any MMORPG on the market today, which remains unclear, the decision to cite only NCsoft and not other publishers in the industry, Blizzard at all. World of Warcraft has recently passed the threshold of 11.5 million users, which is indisputably the number one MMORPG in the industry.
Worlds.com claims that its patent is considered valid and enforceable "and that NCsoft pay the damages, whose amount has not been established, while he has broken a patent.
"Probably also contact other than NCsoft. However, several people are already involved in the matter, regardless of whether they have been quoted directly from our lawsuit," says James Gatto, Worlds.com lawyer, in an interview at the site Virtual Worlds News.
"We should be aware in advance of patents such as this. If you have a chance to change your technology you have to seize it on the fly, because otherwise the risk of generating losses for a long time," says the lawyer.
Worlds.com is a company that deals with technologies that form the basis of virtual communities. It was founded in 1994 and since that time has licensed its technology to partners interested in the MMOG. The official site of Worlds.com be reached by pressing here.
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